Word: crities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin purists, some criti- cisms can be offered. Lines were spoken far too quickly in many cases, and some niceties of the language could not be appreciated. (Cries of "Tardius!" came from last night's audience, and the troupe will probably take the hint tonight.) In fact, perhaps the whole performance is keyed at slightly too fast a tempo; but that is far better than dragging...
...Arthur S. Link of Princeton's history department, Road to the White House is the first volume of a projected four-to eight-volume study. Coming from Princeton, where Woodrow Wilson is still a lively subject of conversation, it is painstaking and generally sympathetic, but now & then sharply criti-cal. It is also more academic and less anecdotal than Ray Stannard Baker's eight-volume Life & Letters. Wilson could be "cold, ruthless and stubborn," says Link, though firm and eloquent in defense of his beliefs. But "there was something about Woodrow Wilson that inevitably engendered controversy when...