Word: criticizing
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...Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...
Using the transparent disguise for his odd notes on life and literature that he is merely editing the journal of an old friend, Van Wyck Brooks in his latest volume ranges from painting to nationalism in meandering around the dusty corners of a literary critic's mind. Brooks skips from meeting Theodore Roosevelt at a Harvard Advocate punch to the funeral of Mark Twain in the next paragraph. Many such incidents are interesting, but the clumsy devices of editorial comments and numerous long footnotes make any attempt at sustained reading very difficult...
...Lash had been a great fomenter of student anti-war strikes, a burning critic of the R.O.T.C. ("What is the R.O.T.C. but a vast propaganda effort to make the war system . . . colorful and appealing . . . ?"). He had written for the Commu nist New Masses, had been a May Day parade speaker. And, of course, he always religiously denied that he was actually a Communist...
Belinsky, the literary critic, wrote the letter castigating the old, then reactionary Gogol which for young Russians ever since has been a sort of declaration of faith in freedom. Chernyshevsky was the one who began as a literary critic but eventually went to Siberia for his classic revolutionary answer to the question What Is To Be Done...
...Stokowski? It was as if Actor Maurice Evans had gradually altered his Hamlet to the style of Cinemactor Robert Taylor. At his first appearance with the NBC Symphony last week, fading Stokowski,* master of the symphonic wow technique, dealt confusion to many a musician under him, and many a critic behind him: Stokowski's increasing preoccupation with inflated, ear-tickling orchestral sonorities seemed to have got out of hand...