Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your cinema critic perhaps a bit severe in calling Dimitri Tiomkin "probably the world's loudest composer" and stating that his music for the documentary film, Rhapsody of Steel, "bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer" [Feb. 1]? Actually, the music for Rhapsody of Steel covers a wide dynamic range, with a substantial proportion of subdued effects...
...review of Where the Boys Are [Jan. 18], your critic betrays his size (or shape, or age). Those of us who are not built along Ivy League lines, i.e., with shoulders, find front-seat sinning pure hell...
Merrit asks me to pass on to what she calls TIME'S "sweet, nurdy, middle-aged critic" this clue...
...critic deplored Graves's "childish tantrum," and another pointed out that "if all artists were to be permitted to destroy fakes or what they consider to be fakes, wherever they find them, all collections would be in jeopardy." A quipster proposed that Selig hang the damaged painting with the label: "Latest work of Morris Graves." But Collector Selig himself was relaxed, wrote Graves a letter: "Your anger was justifiable. I would prefer to leave payment or the choice of replacement of the damaged picture to you. Whatever you decide will be fine with...
Edward M. Purcell, Noble prize winner in physics, will be the first Gerhard Gade University Professor, increasing the ranks of university professors to seven. Harry T. Levin '33 will assume on July 1 the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, a new chair named after the literary critic and French professor who taught Levin while at College...