Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reader's Digest was the first U.S. magazine to be printed in Britain after the wartime blackout. Last week the second one popped up in London bookstores. Unlike the Digest (circ. 11 million), the second U.S. entry-Partisan Review-is a highbrow magazine almost as unfamiliar to most Americans as it is to Britons. But it quickly sold...
...such English intellectuals as Critic George Orwell and Editor Cyril Connolly, the bi-monthly Partisan Review is the voice of the U.S. intellectual Left. If so, it is a small (circ. 6,500) and often confused voice. Once Communist, it shifted to quasi-Trotskyite, is now vaguely Marxian (but anti-Stalinist), and more literary than partisan. In its 13 years it has published such U.S. writers as John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Gertrude Stein...
Once this has been achieved there is still the need for easily accessible facilities for review of grades after they have been recorded. Under the present system errors in judgement must be referred to the appropriate Administrative Board for "investigation and report to the Faculty." Few students and fewer instructors are willing to go to such an extremity. But if there existed within each department a board of review, ready to consider grievances and with the power to act upon its decisions, a large proportion of whatever injustice exists would be climinated, and the cause of almost all student complaints...
...Review week at the University Theater consists of exhuming eight movies that might just as well have remained in their graves. Though they were all successful pictures, only one, "The Green Years," struggles along a little above mediocrity. Evenly divided between long, sentimental sagas and standard musicals, this is a sad review of the motion pictures in the last few years...
...censors, despite their good intentions, have neither the personal experience nor critical understanding with which to pass intelligently upon matters of public entertainment. And psychologists tell us that people actively concerned with the morals of others usually live in subconscious glass houses all their own. The state boards of reviews, rather than serving any real purpose, merely provide sinecure for devoted elderly politicians. If, as it is generally agreed, some overall non-public form of film review is needed, it would be best to leave it solely in the hands of one professional group, the Johnson Office, working close...