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Thus the impression of Southern California architecture gained by a sharp-eyed Easterner (Critic Edmund Wilson) in 1931. In 1942 he would have to acknowledge another side of the picture. In the past decade, particularly, California hillsides have been burgeoning with more up-to-the-minute architectural neatness than any comparable area...
...18th Century is Critic Kronenberger's century, and at its best his book succeeds brilliantly in recapturing its modes and moods. But that century still troubles him. Intellectually he is fascinated by it. But all that is humane in him, and that is a great deal, is still revolted by its superficiality, its grotesquely caparisoned brutality, and the vast half-buried body of its human misery...
Fragile and flowerlike, Actress Rainer proved appealing enough at moments, but she was one step ahead of Barrie all the way. She was not just Cinderella, but one of the babes in the wood and one of the orphans of the storm: in Critic John Anderson's phrase, "a career waif...
...presence of nine miniature communities of gypsies in Cambridge has caused the consternation of Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, leader of the sixth ward and oft-time critic of the University...
...state of affairs when cheap publicity stunts, lavish newspaper and magazine displays determine the success of a movie. Though the film critic may feel unwanted and unheeded at the moment, he should persevere with intelligent and constructive criticism. Such a potent influence on American morals and manners as the movies needs more surveyance than is offered by the public with its latent and incoherent reactions, or by the Hollywood producers who allow commercialism to triumph over integrity and honesty...