Word: reviewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Literature of Worldliness" will be the title of Kronenberger's other course. "It will review works which deal with motives and morality of the social scene," he explained...
Jelly & Gee Whiz. Zinssers is not the only discerning voice that has been diverted in New York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important...
Outside New York, many newspapers have long since been softened to critical jelly by such threats and/or reprisals from producers and exhibitors. The tone of a review in the trade papers bears a remarkable relationship to advertising volume. Among the daily Los Angeles press, only the loftily independent Times Reviewer Philip K. Scheuer bucks a tendency among movie reviewers to play the role of "gee whiz" movie fans rather than movie judges...
Ironically, Hollywood may be mincing a dead horse. As a journalistic form, the movie review has descended to the level of the pressagent's blurb-a blurb commonly reprinted by newspapers too idle or strapped to staff a reviewer. A few perceptive, readable critics are still at critical work. But many papers leave the job to worn-out deskmen, middle-aged ladies (the New York Daily News has three) or unqualified cubs, or else, like the Des Moines Tribune, spread it through the city room, at $3 a review...
...graduated from Boston's Roman Catholic Emmanuel College in 1939 with a B.A. in English ("no honors"), got a job cropping pictures for Houghton Mifflin Co. at $16.50 a week. In 1942 she went to work for the Boston Herald as a secretary, wrote an occasional book review so well that she was hired for the book page of the Star in 1947. Mary liked books (she still does some reviewing), but the city room fascinated her. In 1954 the Star's Executive Editor Newbold Noyes Jr. bustled her off to help cover the Army-McCarthy hearings. Advised...