Word: critically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Scheduled topics include the problems of the critic and trends in films. The discussion, which is sponsored by Ivy Films, will be introduced by Associate Professor Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate Professor of Public Speaking...
...Devlin who is to appear in "King Lear" at Brattle Hall. In hopes of clearing up this matter, I had a talk with Mr. Devlin last week. He seems to be a vigorous, intelligent man, and is articulate on all subjects but himself. For an actor of whom the critic James Agate wrote ". . . it may be that here is the new great actor for whom the English state has impatiently waited since the death of Irving," this is indeed unusual...
...listener the concerto seemed "somewhat like a surrealistic painting-with familiar and beautiful forms in unfamiliar relationships and in a dreamlike atmosphere." Another subtitled it "The id in search of itself." One Boston critic found it "crabbed and harshly dissonant"; another "wanting likability" and "without heart." But beaming Conductor Munch thought that "with Bartok, Berg and Bloch, it is one of the most important concerti." Bill Schuman himself, remembering the "practically silence" he once got in Boston, was mighty pleased with 2½ minutes of applause...
...grave fault with that method, said "Scotty" Reston, is that the negotiations are completed before the public knows about them, so that the "critic in the press . . . has to upset a whole series of applecarts if he wants to make any major change in the policy." What is needed, Reston said, is a working arrangement by which Government officials can tell responsible reporters the broad lines of their policy beforehand so that there can be "some objective discussion of the facts in public...
...months ago the Association on American Indian Affairs launched a committee to keep Hollywood from maligning one of its oldest standard villains, the red man (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week an association member, Critic-Novelist Bernard DeVoto, noted his dissent in Harper's magazine...