He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

one influential French critic remarked: `` Pity for Arnolphe comes with age ''.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

Writing for the Norwegen newspaper Folkets Avis, the critic Erik Bøgh admired Ibsen's originality and technical mastery: " Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear.

In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

The term was reportedly coined in 1971 by rock critic Dave Marsh in a review of their show for Creem magazine.

From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term " Impressionism ", which he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists appropriated for themselves.

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

Between 1967 and 1970 while at the " HFF ", Wenders also worked as a film critic for FilmKritik, then the Munich daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel.

Dukas's career as a critic began in 1892 with a review of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Gustav Mahler at Covent Garden in London.

Although the term " abstract expressionism " was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism.

Before entering the university, he had begun his literary career at Budapest as contributor and dramatic critic for Der Zwischenact.

After studying a variety of subjects, he became a theatre critic and founded the culture magazine, " Der Spiegel ", in 1908.

* Der Nister ( 1884 – 1950 ), pen name of Pinchas Kaganovich ( Kahanovich ), a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic

It is unknown how this phrase became attributed to Derrick, but one theory is that since Der Kommissar and Derrick were both created and written by screenwriter Herbert Reinecker, a TV critic may have attributed this phrase to the wrong one of Reinecker's series, after which it entered popular culture as a catch phrase for Derrick.

Music critic and author Matt Dobkin wrote that, while Ariadne auf Naxos is " not as well loved as Der Rosenkavalier or as important as Salome, it is nevertheless staged all the time, thanks in large part to sopranos ' attraction to the vocal and dramatic grandeur of the title role and to the compelling spitfire Zerbinetta character.

While his popularity as a church critic was at its maximum when Der Spiegel ran a cover story on him in its 1993 Christmas issue, he continues to be a highly sought-after commentator on spiritual, religious and social issues.

And like the critic in Der Spiegel, he singles out for special censure an interview with Die Zeit in which Syberberg claimed that he ' could understand ' the feeling of the SS man on the railway ramp of Auschwitz, who, in Himmler's words, ' made himself hard ' for the sake of fulfilling his mission to the end.

His Thesis film " Der Elvis " was called by critic J. Hoberman " one of the top 50 films of the eighties.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

Joachim Pissarro notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro ’ s work noted “ his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges .” One critic writes:

Poet and critic W. J. Turner commented in The Spectator, " This book alone, in my opinion, ranks him as a major poet ".

A Film Daily critic commented, " This is a pearl of a horror picture which exhibits all the earmarks of a sleeper.

B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance ; and the critic Kenneth Tynan commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were " too well-bred to emote effectively on stage ".

In 1969, critic Andrew Sarris commented that the success of the film had been largely due to " the inspired casting " of Leigh, and in 1998 wrote that " she lives in our minds and memories as a dynamic force rather than as a static presence.

In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley commented, “ her every stage appearance is perceived as a victory of show-business stamina over psychic frailty.

" Pop music critic Gene Stout commented she " has so broadly influenced a younger generation of performers, from Jennifer Lopez ... to Britney Spears, who has copied so many of Jackson's dance moves.

The Economist called her a " scintillating wordsmith " and an " expert literary critic ", but commented that her logic does not match her prose in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a book which commences with the conception of debt and its kinship with justice.

Film critic Peter Travers commented that " If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it's WALL-E ".

However, film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that " Some will say the movie breaks tradition by telling a medieval story with a soundtrack of classic rock.

Variety film critic Leonard Klady referred to the film as " a vanity production parading as a social statement " and commented that the film seemingly borrowed heavily from the earlier film, Billy Jack but opined that Seagal lacked " acting technique and the ability behind the camera to keep the story simple and direct " that Billy Jack star Tom Laughlin, exhibited.

The final shot in the film again shows a severed head hanging from a rope, which may be the same image used in Part I of the film ; one critic has commented that a hanging, severed head is " a symbolic device used in some Latin films to signify that the character has committed suicide ".

Film critic Roger Ebert commented on the edit – " While the original film should, of course, be preserved for historical purposes, there is no need for the general release version to perpetrate racist stereotypes in a film designed primarily for children.

Musical critic Andrew Clements writing for The Guardian commented on Ravel's failures at winning the competition: " Ravel's repeated failure to win the Prix de Rome, the most coveted prize for young composers in France at the turn of the 20th century, has become part of musical folklore.

American critic Harold Bloom commented at the time of its publication that Anatomy established Frye as " the foremost living student of Western literature.

Her performance was regarded as " memorably touching " by Variety magazine, and critic Roger Ebert commented, " Her first kiss is one of the most perfect little scenes I've ever seen in a movie.

New York Times art critic Roberta Smith commented: " It is an idea whose time has come, or come back, or perhaps simply come to a major New York museum for the first time.

The chief music critic of The Times, Frank Howes, later commented, " the British public ... was electrified when it heard the disciplined precision of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Bernard Shaw, in his role as a music critic, commented, " The stale wonderment which the great chorus never fails to elicit has already been exhausted "; he later wrote, " Why, instead of wasting huge sums on the multitudinous dullness of a Handel Festival does not somebody set up a thoroughly rehearsed and exhaustively studied performance of the Messiah in St James's Hall with a chorus of twenty capable artists?

Among many glowing notices for this role, critic Lloyd Rose of the Washington Post commented: " banishes all thoughts of Ethel Merman about two bars into her first number, ' Doin ' What Comes Natur ' lly.

It is an absolute reproduction of a real man '; and a contemporary critic commented, ' I recognized Skimpole instantaneously ; ... and so did every person whom I talked with about it who had ever had Leigh Hunt's acquaintance.

However, the reviewers of the Hindi version panned the film ; Rajeev Masand said it was " a crushing bore of a film, a disappointment on virtually every count " while another critic, Raja Sen commented " It's profoundly sad to see a filmmaker of Ratnam's calibre reduced to this ".

In his entry on Burn Hollywood Burn for his " My Year Of Flops " Column, pop culture critic Nathan Rabin sarcastically commented that Hiller's decision to use the Alan Smithee credit was " very transparently not a stupid, stupid gimmick to raise interest in a terrible film.