Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

The American literary critic Fredric Jameson says of van Vogt:

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic

* Eric Asimov ( born 1957 ), American wine critic

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.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

The American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as " a factual film which is dramatic.

* 1885 – Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic ( d. 1966 )

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

* 1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic

* 1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic ( d. 2005 )

* 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic

* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )

Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 1912 – Samuel Fuller, American director ( d. 1997 )

* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

* 1991 – Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1741 – Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court ( d. 1811 )

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

In the spirit of ecumenism more recent Catholic translations ( e. g. the New American Bible, Jerusalem Bible, and ecumenical translations used by Catholics, such as the RSV-CE ) use the same " standardized " ( King James Version ) spellings and names as Protestant Bibles ( e. g. 1 Chronicles as opposed to the Douaic 1 Paralipomenon, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings instead of 1-4 Kings ) in those books which are universally considered canonical, the protocanonicals.

Former colonial governors of Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward, as well as the Reverend Isaac Backus and the Reverend Samuel Stillman, were among those who played an instrumental role in Brown's foundation and later became American revolutionaries.

" Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus ", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review ( 1981 ), 207-236.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

Therefore, the coordinating council of CUIC created a consultation on race and ministry while also choosing to partner with the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, a social justice organization involved in African American faith communities.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

* 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( b. 1665 )

* 2000 – Samuel Sevian, American chess player

* 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician ( d. 1891 )

* 1833 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American physician ( d. 1883 )

* 1924 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader ( b. 1850 )

Economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis famously argued in 1976 that there was a fundamental conflict in American schooling between the egalitarian goal of democratic participation and the inequalities implied by the continued profitability of capitalist production on the other.

It was acquired by Samuel Ellis, a colonial New Yorker possibly from Wales, around the time of the American Revolution.

* 1819 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer ( d. 1890 )

* 1925 – Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel ( d. 2004 )