Word: critically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...quot;Just now she is describing a ghastly scene, the desolate interior landscape of the becalmed writer. This bedeviled soul feels stupid, worthless, paralyzed; he is in a state of panic and isolation; he feels a terrible sense of impending disaster. "And in this situation the Critic is remorseless." That is Kuriloffs central perception: most people who write anything at all must deal, sooner or later, with a hostile, censorious inner voice. It will say, for example, "You must finish, and you don't have enough time." Or "You can't do it, you're no good...
...contrary to the Gospel." The toll has been high -since 1968, by church count, 122 bishops, priests and seminarians and 273 lay pastoral workers imprisoned or detained, and 84 people physically or psychologically abused. Despite the harassment, the progressive National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has become the most severe critic of the government. The church's task now, explains Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns of Sao Paulo, is to seek "a more just and participatory society." An indirect church-state clash occurred this spring when Brazil's auto metalworkers began a 41-day strike in Sao Paulo. The government...
...form of the ballet has much to do with Schumann's piano suite, written when he was 27. The composer was also a music critic then, and it amused him to make up pseudonyms to represent various aspects of his personality. He even in vented a club for his fantasy creatures to join. Called the Davidsbund, it was sup posed to combat the philistines of the music world. (For a time, readers thought that the group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four...
...illustrious history, Harper's published the writing of Dickens, Trollope and Twain. In the late 1960s, Editor Willie Morris, a Mississippian who earned his spurs at the Texas Observer, signed up a bunch of literary gunslingers - Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Larry King - to give the magazine what one critic called "sophistication with a whoop." Morris and his gang walked out in 1971 when Harper's absentee owners objected to that new direction...
Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Time of Desecration) and sometime film critic: "I did not like The Godfather. Too pessimistic. And Coppola's next film, Apocalypse Now, was even worse. Marlon Brando was a cross between Benito Mussolini and a big piece of cheese...