Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...review the movies is to fulfill a distinctly modern function, for our dogmatic critic of today, nursed on the latest of the old diets, will experience a strange sensation in attempting to pass judgment on a series of reels, no matter what their quality. "The Birth of a Nation," however, made us sit up and take notice, and from its appearance on, we have been made to realize that great things were being done in this field of popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record...
...Oliver street, Boston. The company issued a similar volume for the college year of 1915-16 and the present Anthology will be uniform with the receding one. It will have an introduction by William S. Braithwaite, poetry editor of the Boston Transcript, whose long experience makes him an excellent critic of the first efforts of college undergraduates and who wrote a preface to the 1915-16 edition...
Strange situation that the critic should approach George Bernard Shaw with a genuine mixture of doubt and skepticism! And yet not strange, when one considers the things which have emanated from that brilliant melting-pot of inconsistencies. "Major Barbara," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, does not change matters at all, for it is about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...
...distinguished author, a keen critic of public life and a leading psychologist, his loss, too great to be realized when civilization is in a turmoil, will be estimated fairly in the future, when judgment is less biased by partisan feeling...
...very strikingly the purpose as well as the need of such a body as the Academy. These two men, by their achievements in different lines of endeavor are fully deserving of their new honors. Dr. Wendell, who is professor of English Literature at Harvard, is distinguished as a writer, critic and lecturer. Gari MeIchers is an American artist who is hardly known here, although he has been much honored abroad. Dr. Wendell as a lecturer at the Sobonne and other French universities, represented this country and was duly appreciated in France, although he had until yesterday received no substantial recognition...