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Short time ago. Boston swing critic George Frazier was taken to task in the letter columns of "Jazz Information" for his language in an article on swing. His apply is worth printing...
...Politics Adviser Brendan Bracken, jerky, bespectacled, carrot-haired, is chairman of the London Financial News and an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook. As such he replaced Economics Adviser Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's Man Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found...
...Brahmins have firm opinions. On no subject are their opinions firmer than on Modern Art. In recent years Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has admitted a fine van Gogh, a good Cézanne, a very expensive Gauguin. But as late as 1926 F. W. Coburn, art critic of the Boston Herald, still denounced modernism in the tones of a Cotton Mather. To Pundit Coburn, Cézanne was a poor painter whose good dinners caused his friends to "whoop it up for him and get his pictures admitted to places where they wouldn't otherwise have...
John Mason Brown '23, drama critic of the New York Post and Winthrop Ames Lecturer at Harvard this spring, will give courses in the history of the modern theatre, and on the theatre as seen by its critics...
Since then Editor Macdonald has blown a sharp if not widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged...