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...colleagues, the critics, looked doubtfully at Walter Pach's show. The pictures were dull. There was a big fresco that Pach's Class of 1903 at the College of the City of New York had agreed to give their alma mater. In it three lumpish women illustrating the College's motto, Respice, Adspice and Prospice, symbolically wave their arms about at the past, present and future. Best of the other works were the water colors and several small portrait frescoes, notably one of his wife, Magda, all done with admirable intelligence and solid, conventional technique. There were...
Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...
...days before his book was scheduled to appear in Tuscaloosa bookstores Critic Cason sat in his office after hours, thinking over what he had written. Had he been too extreme? Would his neighbors consider him a renegade? Had he jeopardized a pleasant life for the doubtful fame of writing a controversial book? Finally Critic Cason found the answer. He put a revolver muzzle to his mouth, pulled the trigger...
...addition to holding the posts of literary editor of the Advocate, and president of the Classical Club, Haskins, a former president of the Critic, has been elected Class Odist and Commencement Orator for this year. Last March he was awarded a Henry Fellowship for study at Oxford next year...