Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unavoidable, since a current novel of mine has been on your bestseller list for a good many weeks. And in your Music section, you lead off with an appreciation of a recording of excerpts from the rehearsals of Maestro Toscanini, in which I had a certain part. Your music critic, like your book reviewer, who evidently considers my novels beneath his notice, has chosen to ignore me, which is a treatment I much prefer to possible deprecation...
Last week Peking's lone critic was silenced. Buried in a long Radio Peking broadcast was a brief item: Ma had "resigned" from his job as president of China's biggest university...
...long ago, an English music critic tagged U.S. Pianist Shura Cherkassky with an odd title: "Lew Hoad of the Piano." Like Tennis Player Hoad, explained the critic, Cherkassky was "capable of astonishing feats and of hardly less astonishing lapses." Cherkassky's feats, like Hoad's, have so outnumbered his lapses that he has become one of the most sought-after artists on the European concert circuit. Last week he demonstrated why: with service under firm control and ground strokes booming, he swept through a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Herbert von Karajan...
...critic, Grace Hartigan's painting seems to "venture frankly and deliberately into utter chaos." Nowadays, she gets her inspiration from turning away from the world and looking within. As a result, she says, her paintings are more "objective." "As soon as I left subject, I was able to go more deeply into content. Now I am trying to find my own internal world rather than the world that is across the street or down the stairs...
...Great Clutter. Collectors did not find the other Albert so much to their taste. A moody man who came to hate having to meet anyone new, he did not copy nature, but shaped it with his own violent rhythms and dark dreams. In 1908 the great British critic Roger Fry at last wrote a piece about him, but the world at large still failed to take notice. By that time, Ryder was already an unkempt eccentric with wild hair and ragged clothes who lived on Manhattan's Lower West Side in a clutter of newspapers, bottles, unwashed dishes, dirty...