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.

Slate music critic Jody Rosen describes Christgau's writing as " often maddening, always thought-provoking ... With Pauline Kael, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American mass-culture critics of the second half of the 20th century.

His satirical online take down of James Frey was named one of the " Top 26 Cultural Moments Of The Decade " by Slate cultural critic Troy Patterson.

Fellow Slate columnist and Iraq war critic David Edelstein, though generally supportive of the film, wrote Fahrenheit 9 / 11 " is an act of counterpropaganda that has a boorish, bullying force ", but called it a " legitimate abuse of power.

In 2006, Slate media critic Jack Shafer described CPI as having " broken as many stories as almost any big-city daily in the last couple of decades ".

Slate film critic David Edelstein reviewed the work of actor Val Kilmer favorably, writing:

In the late 1960s and 1970s, she was the first pop music critic for The New Yorker, and later wrote for, among others, the Village Voice, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Slate, and Salon, as well as Dissent, where she was also on the editorial board.

Slate Magazine critic David Edelstein also praised the film, in particular the action scenes, villains, and chemistry between Banderas and Zeta-Jones.

Jack Shafer, then the media critic for Slate, declared in a May 2006 commentary that Calame ’ s first year as public editor had been " dreadful ".

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ( Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( Hebrew: עדין אבן ישראל ) ( born 1937 ) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a " once-in-a-millennium scholar ".

The Time magazine critic wrote: " As Reed's Soviet nemesis, novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself nicely – a tundra of ice against Reed's all-American fire.

Responding to a question by The Times film critic Kate Muir about his German roots and his comments in a Danish film magazine about the Nazi aesthetic, von Trier claimed to have some sympathy for and understanding of Adolf Hitler, and then jokingly claimed to be a Nazi himself:

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

He was the film critic for BlackBook magazine from 2004 to 2006.

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.

Cultural critic Karl Kraus, with his brilliantly controversial magazine Die Fackel, advanced the field of satirical journalism, becoming the literary and political conscience of this era.

The New Republic critic Otis Ferguson wrote two short articles for the magazine, " Young Man with a Horn " ( July 29, 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( November 18, 1940 ), that worked to revive interest not only in Beiderbecke's music but also in his biography.

During this time, Hickman released a first solo recording, " Palmhenge ", which received " Voices Choice " accolades in The Village Voice by the rock critic Robert Christgau and a positive review in Blender magazine.

He had the unprecedented distinction of being elected President of both the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Experimental Theatre Club ( the ETC ), in addition to being theatre critic for the university magazine Isis.

The critic for Time magazine acknowledged the critical storm around Fleming and Dr. No, but was broadly welcoming of the book, writing that whilst " not all readers will agree that Dr. No ... is magnificent writing, ... pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: ' At last, an unprintable book that is readable '.

:" I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas.

Henry Louis " H. L ." Mencken ( September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956 ), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.

One critic described the original lay-out of the magazine as owing much to “ Neo-Brechtian Nihilism ” although Rushton thought it resembled a betting shop floor.

They believed that the band's endless rehearsals and according to critic Amy Lee in Metronome magazine, " letter-perfect playing ", diminished any feeling from performances.

Film critic Pauline Kael adopts a more neutral stance, while Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel writes " The nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners.

An anonymous critic writing in Opera magazine in 1954, having attended a performance of Hindemith's Neues vom Tage, noted that " Mr Hindemith is no virtuoso conductor, but he does possess an extraordinary knack of making performers understand how his own music is supposed to go ".

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.

Writing in A. R. Orage's magazine The New Age, the poet and critic F. S. Flint ( a champion of free verse and modern French poetry ) was highly critical of the club and its publications.

Rolling Stone magazine described the song as " Lennon's lavish daydream " and music critic Richie Unterberger said "' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds ' was one of the best songs on The Beatles ' famous Sgt.

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.