Word: critically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sometimes the coalition met itself coming & going as it argued that there was no use doing "something" for Korea in light of the Administration's "do nothing" policy on China. In vain, Minnesota's studious ex-missionary Dr. Walter Judd, an Old China Hand and able Republican critic of State's Asian policies, tried to get things right side up. Cried he: "If, on top of the blow the Administration has just dealt to the last hope of the Chinese, we here today walk out on the Koreans, what do you think it will...
Martin Cooper, the Spectator's music critic, was almost angrily contemptuous of American creative music and its inability to influence Europe. America's forte, said Cooper, is the "smooth efficiency" of its big orchestras, "that concentration on performance natural among a people preoccupied with means rather than ends...
...opening night last month a glamorous audience paid up to $25 a seat to hear La Bohème. The performance was doomed from the start. Derisive whistles greeted the tenor's vain struggles for the high notes. After the soprano's first-act aria, a critic cracked: "They call me Mimi, but my name is Brünnhilde...
Wrote one Louisville critic: "It opens an entirely new field for the contemporary dancer . . . and places him on a commercial and artistic footing with the piano, instrumental and vocal soloist." To sallow, dark-eyed Dancer Graham, it was "a great challenge . . . This must be a special work with a full symphony. It can't be reduced to anything I can take on tour. But other symphony orchestras may be interested...
...sized reading public, independent of Book Clubs and capable of choosing for itself, is the main cause of the extraordinary situation by which talent [in America] is less capable of supporting itself for what it is, and to do what it wants to do, than in most European countries." Critic Spender might also have noted that the kind of haphazard judgment displayed fore & aft of his essay is a questionable boon either to serious literary innovators or their determined handful of readers...