Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classicism. Instead, without the usual nightmarish litter to distract them, critics and gallerygoers were spotting some old Dali shortcomings more clearly than ever. The London Times dismissed Dali's recent work as "trivial and irreverent . . . singularly banal." In the Daily Express, Critic Osbert Lancaster applied the most devastating label of all: Victorian. In his "laborious accuracy and painstaking attention to detail," said Lancaster, Dali reminded him of some "minor academician" of Victoria's Royal Academy...
...American participants in the program are members of branches of the American Federation of Labor; C.I.O. students have always been a definite minority. Healy points out that, despite President Philip Murray's enthusiastic endorsement of the project, the C.I.O. seems to be "a little suspicious" of the Harvard label which it bears and prefers to rely on its own educational system in training labor executives...
Nowhere did I label any of these as "subversive," though I still think they paint a blacker picture of America than the one I knew. I agree with the delegate who said they were "songs of an oppressed people," a statement you attribute erroneously...
Copland also said: "The classics have been used to snuff out all liveliness . . . and to set up a religion of music . . . while the public has been afraid to invest in anything not bearing the label of a masterwork...
...Never Say Never" has been condemned in certain quarters as immoral and indecent, but it deserves no such label. It is an adult comedy obviously intended to be a farce and nothing more. The situation of an unmarried couple living together has been used may times before, and the humor is innocuous enough. Indeed, some New Yorkers may find the whole thing a trifle naive...