Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...where most questions have more than five conflicting sides, just about everybody agrees that Tom Gates has been the most successful Defense Secretary since the late James Forrestal (1947-49). Georgia's crusty Congressman Carl Vinson. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a frequent Pentagon critic, flatly calls Gates "the best appointment President Eisenhower has made...
Under the Yum-Yum Tree (by Lawrence Roman) is the sort of light sex comedy that a critic can't come down on too heavily. One wrinkle to its romance is that, though boy wants to marry, girl thinks they should first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...
...Marie Moynagh, Italy's Luigi Alva and Nicola Zaccaria. The star of the evening, though, was Sutherland, and she amply lived up to the reputation that had preceded her (TIME, June 13). Her range was wide, secure and even, her tone warm and sparkling. Her trill, as one critic noted, "really is a trill and not a wobble." In one of the many moments that won her bravos, Sutherland swept up to a high E flat with astonishing ease...
...have been hard on those around him, but it produced some of the most delicate and influential works of art ever to come out of Britain. Manhattan's Otto Gerson Gallery this week shows 44 Turner water-colors and drawings, assembled in the U.S. and Britain by Art Critic Katharine Kuh, that clearly show how far ahead of his time Turner...
...wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...