Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given the impression, in the most poignant moment of the drama, of a barge woman. What is the explanation of it all? I don't know. After looking into my own mind, I have sometimes wondered if perhaps the accusations might not be laid to the critic himself...
Certain friends of Prof. William Lyon Phelps spluttered with alarm when they read last week that he had been installed honorary pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. They envisioned the famed teacher, talker, critic, nodding meek approval on the platform of Calvary Baptist of the harsh fundamentalisms of Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor-in-chief...
...Copyist Alceo annoys the Metropolitan much less than Manhattan Critic Walter Pach, who recently published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
Whether or not Critic Pach's salvos affected Metropolitan dictators, they announced a February auction of 200 paintings of an evidently admitted stupidity...
Great prima donnas usually do their singing in great cities, where great crowds besiege the box office for the privilege of hearing great music. Ganna Walska, different, opened a concert tour last week in the Central High School Auditorium at Binghamton, N. Y. This caused Critic Martha Wheatley in the Binghamton Press (circulation 34,800) to write as follows...