Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a collection of short stories written by literary unknowns achieves nationwide attention through sympathetic reviews in the leading book review columns across the country, and three pages in Life magazine, the casual reader assumes something unusual has been written. When this book is not replete with scenes of sex (although one such story included might recommend the book on this basis), the bystander should be poring over its contents to find the reason for all this publicity. In "The Purple Testament," he will find himself perusing not outstanding technical composition but written fragments...
...back until March, when I settled the severance pay [for USA workers lopped off] and one thing and another," said Field. An anonymous new backer, reportedly an oilman, was now paying the prenatal bills for unborn USA. And its editor, Norman Cousins, who also edits the Saturday Review oj Literature, was still looking for paper for the new magazine, and presses to print...
...Music Criticism," and the speech was an extemporaneous one in answer to some statements made earlier in the day by Columbia's Professor Paul H. Lang. The New York Times' music critic sometimes was "defeated," he explained, because he felt he had left something important out of a review, or perhaps and stated an objection too strongly, or failed to emphasize some idea. Put this together with a later statement, in which Downes assured the audience that a music critic could not kill any truly good piece of music, claiming that a composition with vitality would bounce back sooner...
Downes goes home, having met his midnight deadline, and suspects that his review is not strictly on the beam throughout, but when the occasion demands, he becomes comforted by the supposition that a vital piece of music (and by implication a vital artist) is bound to register favorably some day, no matter what the critics say. It is no easy task to balance this theory with some stark and fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have...
...report will recommend that the new Council appoint a committee to review the same menus made up by the dining hall stewards before they are submitted to the University dietitian...