Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing annoys independent critic Anne Hollander more than people who don't take fashion seriously. Fashion, she rather self-righteously laments, "bears a heavy weight of ancient discredit that still burdens many of those who work in it and write about it," such as herself...
...course I should have expected this. As any critic will comment, the formula that works so well in a nine-minute Saturday Night Live sketch rarely survives the full-length movie version, eg: A Night at the Roxbury. But I was a critic with a mission. I wanted to relive my days among the nuns...
Moravcsik has had a very diverse and eclectic career. Before going to graduate school, he worked as a trade negotiator, a German translator, a classical music critic and a business consultant, among other things...
...Allan Nairn, future critic of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and its most widely recognized test, the SAT, was a senior in a New Jersey public high school. He was faced with teachers, parents and fellow students who treated the exam with the cutthroat intensity of battle and who viewed its results as the leading ticket to or barrier from a better life. But while Nairn's scores helped grant him a ticket rather than a barrier and he enrolled in Princeton the next year, he was severely troubled by what Nicholas B. Lemann '76, a former Crimson president, refers...
...hypocrisies he sees all around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism...