Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flannery O'Connor, the late short-story master from Georgia, once noted that "any fiction that comes out of the South is going to be considered grotesque by the Northern critic, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be considered realistic." At the time-the '50s-it was a convenient arrangement: regionalism provided neat categories for prides and prejudices. But the postwar boundaries could not hold...
...seem to be in the same dilemma as your critic of Dr. Gregory Hemingway's book [July 26]. I would also like to know what type of person the author is. My reason is in some ways more provocative. Dr. Hemingway is my father. I haven't seen him for eight years. This seems a parallel to the fact that he was out of physical touch with my grandfather for ten painful (according to the book) years. I feel no bitterness toward my father, but I think it sad that I learn more about him by reading articles...
...some very cultivated palates, however, yogurt's main virtue is its taste. Gourmet Craig Claiborne says it is "a sensational ingredient for cooking." Food Critic Gael Greene cautions that it cannot be compared with foie gras, or homemade butter-pecan ice cream. But she says that she breakfasts on yogurt "every disciplined morning," adding, "yogurt is definitely a best friend -but not a lover...
...author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...producing an old one. And without the reality of profit, no business in the long run can keep itself alive-except by government subsidy, which has to be paid partly out of taxes levied on the profits of other businesses. Says Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, often a critic of U.S. business: "Profits are what drive this great economy...