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TIME'S article (May 27) on Partisan Review contained an erroneous implication in regard to my approach as a critic which I should like to correct. You wrote that "at the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable...
Louisiana Purchase is a good musicomedy-smooth, spirited, tuneful. It does not, however, represent most of its contributors at their peak. Some of Berlin's music, especially the title song and It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow, is thoroughly attractive, and some of his lyrics are amusing; but Louisiana Purchase does not show the dazzling Berlin of As Thousands Cheer. Ryskind's book is lively enough, but as political satire it is miles below Of Thee I Sing. Balanchine's ballets are skillful but not startling...
...incident got an exceptionally bad press. Franklin Roosevelt read the papers over his breakfast coffee, grabbed the telephone, and himself called Mr. Landon. The Kansan, in a press conference, was at the peak of a denunciation of Term III. Everybody had muffed everything, said the President mellowly; he always liked to eat lunch with Mr. Landon whenever he happened to pass through Washington. Mr. Landon, 835 miles away in Chicago, just gulped, then entrained for Washington...
...past five years art has boomed in the U. S. For sheer quantity of paint, canvas and public interest, the period has probably been unequaled even by the peak years of the Italian Renaissance. Some symptoms: 1) WPA Art Project's estimated 2,000,000 square feet of surface painted to date; 2) 790 exhibitions sponsored throughout the U. S. since 1932 by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; 3) a bull market in art books (262 were published in 1939). During the past three years the No. 1 U. S. source of popular knowledge...
...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' in America ... is more esthetically barren and tasteless than anything that...