Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GEORGE MacDONALD FRASER...
Yale, with a 2-3-1 mark for the season, lost last Saturday to Cornell, 78-40. The Eli's strongman is Rich MacDonald, who is expected to give Harvard's Dewey Hickman a tough fight in the hurdles...
...films being made are simply interesting enough to an audience involved in cultural and social action, whether the men who make the films are interested in changing or analyzing the world--even as small a part of it as Hollywood. The agonizing tension communicated by the old crusaders--Agee, MacDonald, Warshow--is now lacking. Since the educated came to recognize that talented men have already created lasting works of cinema art, it's become more acceptable to say, sniff, that Dreyer is a poet in light; or, sigh, that John Ford is the lyricist of the American past. Just...
...matter what he thinks of himself as a creative talent, Sheed--like Jamison--considers criticism a secondary art. This is, at first, disappointing to seekers after fire and advocacy. It certainly must have disconcerted Dwight MacDonald followers when Sheed took over the Esquire film column, which Sheed held between 1967 and 1970. Ice and detachment are apt, after generations of disinterested dons, to seem way-stations on the road to irrelevance. But in Sheed's practice, his Catholic temperament and catholicity of taste lead to a greater freedom for play with the unworthy than that of other critics. Since...
Recent judicial decisions expanding the rights of criminal suspects suggested the basic guidelines of the new manual. Macdonald said...