Word: critics
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Benedite, an art critic of international fame, and also the curator of the Luxembourg and of the "Musee Rodin," spoke at the Fogg Museum on Thursday and Friday of last week...
...administrating the "Musee du Luxembourg" and the "Musee Rodin", M. Benedite has made a great reputation as a historian and critic of art. He has written a great many works for the principal art and literary reviews, and also several important books on art and contempory artists...
...that a critic in the Literary Review of 'the New York Evening Post places Dr. Crofters' book in a list suitable for the Seventh Age of Reading, for those who are post their prime and have reached the age of at least sixty. It takes all my slight remainder of youthful courage to differ from so high an authority and recommend "The Dame School of Experience" to-a much less aged audience. Essays need not so much age for their enjoyment as a conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation...
...first blow is for the critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play...
...Sport," of Dublin, the reviewer writes of "The Dragon," "It is the strongest mixture of ancient and modern fun ever concocted, . . . I have not heard so much genuine hilarity for years", while the critic for the "Stage" of London, says, "'The Dragon' must rank as a distinctive achievement...