Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...angry young man of the left in his day, British Poet and Critic Stephen Spender is now a respected and respectable member of the tight little club that is London's literary set. This week in the New York Times Book Review, while pondering the effects of togetherness on himself and his friends, Spender offered a fascinating guidebook for nonmembers...
...should have grain, it looks like he's got a cannonball. Nobody in Nebraska ever looked like that." But of all capitol finials, none has had a sadder career than Hartford's Genius of Connecticut. When she was one year old in 1879. an ungallant Manhattan critic wrote of her: "She is the old conventional Greek woman with no clothing in particular about the upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower half. She is devoid of expression." Years later, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius...
...friend Boris Pasternak, "the news rocked the telephones, blanketed faces with pallor ... [people] all the way up the staircase wept and pressed against each other." It was a blow from which Soviet literature has never quite recovered, for Mayakovsky was the unchallenged laureate of the revolution. A critic named Josef Stalin flatly acclaimed him as "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch...
Washington Music Critic Paul Hume's ears went red ten years ago when he got some blue language in the mail from the White House: Harry Truman didn't like Hume's musical judgment on Daughter Margaret's singing. That might have taught any other critic that music and politics don't mix. But after all, Washington is a political town. Lately, on his radio program called Guest Conductor, Critic Hume has been airing the favorite melodies of the 1960 candidates. By last week he had all four on record...
...curator of the embryonic Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art greeted him at the airport ("Welcome to our great little painter!"). And at the show, Aldo, dressed in corduroy pants and polo shirt, seemed as at ease as an old pro. "This boy is a complete painter!" said the critic of the morning Clarin. "He justifies all expectations," declared the man from El Mundo. Lapping it all up, Aldo grandly announced that he had come home to stay, even though his parents would remain in Paris. "I must break all fetters," he said. "I cannot paint as I want when...