Word: lashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question about theater criticism the actress declared that criticizing a play is difficult because theater is too spontaneous a medium, too fitting for its moment, to be thought out in an alien way later on. Critics must learn that to be kind to a play they must lash into it, she explained. The critic who praises a bad play, or even a mediocre one, she said, fails to understand the cruelty of being so kind...