Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Denmark's Sculptor Jean Gauguin, 79, lives in a Copenhagen suburb, minds his own business, and seldom talks about his famed father, Painter Paul Gauguin, who went to Tahiti in 1891, died in the South Seas twelve years later. But recently, when a Danish art critic came to call, Jean molded a few details. "He was a small man," recalled Sculptor Gauguin. "His sailor's papers say 162 centimeters [5 ft. 3½ in.]. I believe he used high heels. He was rather boring and tedious, terribly ceremonious, difficult and fussy." Pressed for more, Jean said: "They also...
Delphian Grandeur. The compositions of Alan Hovhaness, wrote one Japanese critic, "are like Japanese scrolls. As they are rolled out, they reveal new images and their message bit by bit. Western classical music in comparison is like a photographic print." Japanese audiences heard Hovhaness conduct several of his older works-Psalm and Fugue, the 28-minute Concerto No. 8-plus two brand-new works written in transit: Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Arjuna," after the name of a mythical hero from Indian folklore; and the choral piece Fuji (based on an 8th century Japanese poem beginning: "As I stepped...
...chronicled the earlier era in The Years with Ross: "There was no question that Ross wanted Shawn to succeed him, and the whole staff was pulling for him, too." It still is. Shawn is a gentle boss, and so sensitive to writers' feelings that he once called Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan in Havana to ask permission to change a comma. But this punctilious deference to writers' words may explain the magazine's increased windiness. Both fact and fiction pieces tend to run on interminably. As one writer puts it, "Everybody's pieces but mine...
...found in "The Talk of the Town," while he hibernates in Maine. No bright new crop of writers or artists seems to have come along since Ross's day. Best of the new crop: Short-Story Writer John Updike. The magazine still has a first-rate music critic in Winthrop Sargeant, but most of its critical departments have lost their edge. The magazine has been unable to develop a book critic to rival Clifton Fadiman at his best, or of the stature of Edmund Wilson, whose occasional New Yorker reviews, however, run more often to the heavy than...
...myself; that it was released by us jointly for sale for the benefit of The Musicians' Foundation; and that my part in the record was thought necessary for and by the largely lay audience to whom the rehearsal excerpts were first presented. I am sure your music critic considers my remarks as unworthy of his notice as your book reviewer considers my novels; but Maestro Toscanini was one of the people who recognize that I have my place in American letters and in musical expertise...