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Rarely outside of Paris is an art critic so stimulating to his readers as to get himself burned in effigy. Last week Eleanor Jewett, art critic for the Chicago Tribune, very nearly achieved that distinction as the climax of a long career...
...Light and mystery in combination was one critic's description of Turner's painting at the height of his career. To arrive at that combination this barbers son put himself with peasant caution and intelligence through years of discipline in the Royal Academy School, under teachers of perspective and architectural drawing, on constant sketching trips through half the terrains and atmospheres of Europe, as an illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship...
...poetic prose: "In our ears the hurricane roars and silence knows us not. Out of confusion do we come and into confusion do we go. . . . Thus speaks the modern-he who has lost faith in the good, the beautiful, the true." But dissent remained private until, fortnight ago, Critic Jewett dismissed the paintings in the Art Institute's annual student show as of 'comic valentine persuasion...
Brains. British Feminist Rebecca West once said: "Before a war military science seems a real science-like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." British Military Critic Liddell Hart replied: "Perhaps that conclusion is rather hard on astrology." The reason for Liddell Hart's cynicism is fundamentally something that neither free-lance nor professional military critics can measure...
...Critics generally have praised John Dos Passos' trilogy, 1919, The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money (now published in one volume as U. S. A.). Leftist critics have pointed to it with pride as a dramatization of Marxist theory. "It is Dos Passos," said Communist Critic Granville Hicks, "that has shown the [Marxist] way. . . . There is no apparent obstacle to his continued growth...