Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kazin, alas, has grown "tired of love and love and love." In truth it seems Mr. Kazin has simply grown tired. When an established critic tires he falls to attacking live authors (Williams) and quoting dead authors (Mann). Mr. Kazin wants dramatists to reflect "the enlarged voice of our human possibilities." It has always seemed to me that Tennessee Williams has spent a good deal of time in his plays pointing out that this voice has been slashed at the vocal cords in today's world. We may expect to hear more of Mr. Kazin: speeches before the D.A.R...
...reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That...
When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...
After two punishingly lean years, Wilder at last got a screenwriting job at Paramount. And at the whim of an executive producer, he was teamed with Writer Charles Brackett, onetime drama critic for The New Yorker. Suave Charlie Brackett and rough Billy Wilder clicked right away. Wilder spewed Niagaras of notions, and in this prodigious stream of consciousness, Brackett fished for usable ideas. Together they wrote 14 films without a single flop, and some of their movies were among the biggest hits (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard) of the era. But in 1950 Brackett and Wilder broke up. Says...
Died. Robert Whitehead, 62, for 18 years a member of Virginia's House of Delegates and an articulate liberal critic of the conservative Byrd organization, who stayed out of the 1957 Democratic gubernatorial race in order to avoid a bitter party split that threatened the eventual election of a Republican; of a heart attack; in Lovingston...