Word: kauffmanns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Mr. Taubman, the outgoing drama critic of the New York Times, to Mr. Kauffmann, the incoming drama critic of the New York Times: "Mr. Kauffmann, I'd like you to meet David Merrick-the enemy." Positively, Mr. Taubman? Absolutely...
Little did they know. Stanley Kauffmann, 49, fresh off the New Republic, came to the Times in January, after Howard Taubman was promoted out of his aisle seat. Kauffmann must have been warned about Merrick, who is the adulte terrible of Broadway producers and who, because he complained so frequently about the Times's churlish commentaries on Merrick productions, might like to take credit for Taubman's departure...
...question then became: What sort of critic would Kauffmann be? It turned out that Kauffmann was the sort of critic who decided right off that he could not do justice to a review for a morning paper when there was only about an hour between curtain's fall and press's roll. So he began attending preview performances-and even a dress rehearsal or two. That gave Kauffmann time to ruminate for an extra day or so before deadline. It also gave producers and the other daily critics a pain in the neck. The producers claimed that their...
...ever of artifice, created a film with no meaning, a huge in-joke designed for dedicated cinema buffs. The director constantly used his worst shots to insure that slickness would not prevail over the natural effect he sought. The result at once delighted his friend Truffaut and antagonized Stanley Kauffmann...
...views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk-ups: should an Artist give up his Integrity for Commercial Success? Positively not, Mr. Kauffmann...