Word: criticizing
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...such a view the Advocate's critic has offered his vulnerable side. He says that there is a great class, composed "of those who are of average intelligence and ambition but who are so unfortunate as to be enrolled in courses in which the reading is too difficult to review and the lectures too disjointed to form a possible unity." To forestall this difficulty and to eliminate the outside tutor he would have professors: 1. provide a careful outline of the course 2. in this outline include "a detailed summary of not only the lectures but an outline...
...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...
This particular talented critic spent the rest of the evening having a good time watching the trained seals in the comparatively sophisticated and profound review current at Waldron...
...Rostova, thus allowing Esther Ralston to prove that she can be quite as intriguing under a black wig as under her own shingled gold. The plot moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman...
...These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary critic of great...