Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...something about your movie critic? He belongs on one of those small, arty magazines-not on a popular, large-circulation magazine...
...opera. When his hospitalized hero grabs a nurse and gaily dances on artificial legs to prove to doctors his fitness for combat, the music is merely polite and detached, fails to milk the emotion of the scene in approved Soviet fashion. Still, as Pravda's music critic wrote last week: "A work about which many overhasty and unfair things were said at one time (by myself among others) has now come into...
...critic called the pageant the paltry sum of "lemur-like witches from a melo drama, fur-clad shepherds from an amateur little theater, and small children from a club Christmas pageant." But other German critics found Orff's work magical, "full of simple poetry and totally pious...
PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...
...this was no surprise to those who came expecting to be surprised, as any Ionesco audience must. It was a kind of Left Bank version of Author Meets the Critics, a personal attack on critics in dramatic form. The three critical Barts filled the hall with pretentious polysyllables, spoke of "costumology," "historicization" and "decorology," told "Ionesco" that he had "points of view with no optical instrument," knowledgeably mentioned "the Being of not-Being and the Not-Being of Being in the Know." For his part, the hero finally turned to the audience and stated his case: "I blame these doctors...