Eliade's 1934 novel Întoarcerea din rai (" Return from Paradise ") centers on Pavel Anicet, a young man who seeks knowledge through what Călinescu defined as " sexual excess ".

This technique Călinescu describes as " boring ", and its result " cynical ".

George Călinescu objected to its " monotony ", and, noting that it featured a set of " intelligent observations ", criticized the " banality of its ideological conversations.

Eliade himself referenced the story and Aldous Huxley's experiments in the same section of his private notes, a matter which allowed Matei Călinescu to propose that Un om mare was a direct product of its author's experience with drugs.

Matei Călinescu did not reject Culianu's version, but argued that, on its own, the piece was beyond political interpretations.

Also, George Călinescu was a more complex writer who, among different literary creations, produced the monumental " History of the Romanian literature, from its origins till present day ".

* George Călinescu, Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent (" The History of Romanian Literature from its origins till present day "), 1941

Initially, Călinescu intended to enter the political scene as a member of the dominant National Liberal Party ( PNL ), but his views on politics were rejected by its leader Ion I. C. Brătianu.

In May, after witnessing the result of Nazi pressures on Austria ( see Anschluss ), Călinescu decapitated the Guard by ordering arrests of its leaders, beginning with that of Codreanu, as well as many of its members and sympathisers ( including Nae Ionescu and Mircea Eliade ).

While passing through the Eroilor area on its return from the Cotroceni Palace, Călinescu's luxury automobile, a Cadillac, was ambushed by that of the assassins, who shot Călinescu, his bodyguard Radu Andone, and his driver ( Miti Dumitrescu drove his car into the Premier's, which came to sudden stop as it ran into a cart — Andone was gunned down as he stepped out of the car, and Călinescu as he stood waiting on the back seat ; over twenty bullets were recovered from his body ).

A similar view was expressed by Vianu's predecessor, Silvian Iosifescu, who also stressed that Caragiale always avoided applying the Naturalist technique to its fullest, while George Călinescu himself believed that the characters ' motivations in O făclie de Paşte are actually physiological and ethnological.

According to Călinescu, the inebriated citizen worships authority as a " supreme god ", despite all its absurdities.

The trilogy is not without its critics ; George Călinescu argued that Teodoreanu's style was too laden with metaphors and rather baroque.

Born in Vaslui, Mironescu joined the PNŢ and became one of most its recognizable leaders, the main figure of a pro-authoritarian faction bitterly opposed to left-wing groups such as those of Nicolae L. Lupu, Petre Andrei, Mihai Ralea, and Armand Călinescu.

Vianu, together with his friend Matei Călinescu published an autobiographical volume, Amintiri in dialog (" Remembrances in Dialogue ").

George Călinescu who saw in it " an echo of Nae Ionescu's lectures ", traced a parallel with the essays of another of Ionescu's disciples, Emil Cioran, while noting that Cioran's were " of a more exulted tone and written in the aphoristic form of Kierkegaard ".

This differentiation, George Călinescu believed, echoed Ionescu's metaphor of man, seen as " the only animal who can fail at living ", and the duck, who " shall remain a duck no matter what it does ".

For Călinescu, such a perspective on life culminated in " banality ", leaving authors gripped by the " cult of the self " and " a contempt for literature ".

George Călinescu criticized the book for inconsistencies and " excesses in Dostoyevskianism ", but noted that the Lecca family portrayal was " suggestive ", and that the dramatic scenes were written with " a remarkable poetic calm.

According to literary historian George Călinescu, Iorga's " huge " and " monstrously " comprehensive research, leaving no other historian " the joy of adding something ", was matched by the everyday persona, a " hero of the ages ".

Călinescu suggests that Iorga was an " anachronistic " type in his context: " approved only by failures ", aged before his time, modeling himself on ancient chroniclers and out of place in modern historiography.

According to Călinescu, Iorga was visibly embarrassed by even 19th century Romanticism, out of his territory with virtually everything after " Villani and Commynes ", and endorsing the " obscure manqués " in modern Romanian letters.

A decade later, George Călinescu described in detail the historian's public speaking routine: the " zmeu "- like introductory outbursts, the episodes of " idle grace ", the apparent worries, the occasional anger and the intimate, calm, addresses to his bewildered audience.

George Călinescu referred to this series as Iorga's " interesting " and " eminently subjective " literature ; " dignified " and dominated by " explosions of sentiment ", it echoes, according to Călinescu, the Renaissance model of Ion Neculce.

A generation younger than Ibrăileanu, George Călinescu also noted the contrast between Mihail Kogălniceanu and his predecessors, as two sets of " Messianist " intellectuals — in this contrast, Heliade Rădulescu was " hazy and egotistic ", whereas Kogălniceanu and others had " a mission which they knew how to translate into positive terms ".

Călinescu observed that much of Kogălniceanu's own prose works imitated the style of his friend Costache Negruzzi, without carrying the same artistic weight, while noting that his few works of autobiography featured " pages of gracious good-natured melancholy ", which he attributed to the author's traditional upbringing.

George Călinescu objected to the narrative, arguing that both the physical affair and the father's rage seemed artificial, while commenting that Eliade placing doubt on his Indian characters ' honesty had turned the plot into a piece of " ethnological humor ".

Uniquely among students of Caragiale's work, George Călinescu argued that the writer's main interest was not in criticizing the liberals, but actually in an overall rejection of the most embedded Junimist tenets, which, in Călinescu's view, had engendered " a lack of faith in the country's own powers ".

Călinescu recorded Eliade's rejection of objectivity, citing the author's stated indifference towards any " naïveté " or " contradictions " that the reader could possibly reproach him, as well as his dismissive thoughts of " theoretical data " and mainstream philosophy in general ( Eliade saw the latter as " inert, infertile and pathogenic ").

According to George Călinescu, Nicolae Iorga was overdependent on his memory, which could result in " utterly fictitious " critical apparatuses for his scientific works.

" A specific aspect of this focus on experience is sexual experimentation — Călinescu notes that Eliade's fiction works tend to depict a male figure " possessing all practicable women in given family ".

Noting that the plot and setting reminded one of horror fiction works by the German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, and defending Domnişoara Christina in front of harsher criticism, Călinescu nonetheless argued that the " international environment " in which it took place was " upsetting ".

Eliade's short story Şarpele (" The Snake ") was described by George Călinescu as " hermetic ".

He soon became involved in a virulent dispute with historian Nicolae Iorga, when the latter issued harsh criticism regarding Carol's January 1939 initiative to dress large sections of the society, including Romanian Academy members, in various uniforms ( a measure backed by Călinescu ); Iorga remarked with irony: " I'm prepared to wear the FRN uniform, but allow me to wear a speared helmet on my head, on which to place is, to Impalement | impale the Minister of the Interior ".

By describing the " average citizen " through the eyes of various government organizations, the poem criticizes standardization and the modern state's relationship with its citizens.

Some observers took issue with its perspective on Canada ; most notably, The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature criticizes its " condescending tone " in describing Canada's resources.

" Like other textual sources, Flavius Josephus too criticizes the reign of Amon, describing his reign similarly to the Bible.

In 2004, Fund wrote Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy ( ISBN 1-59403-061-8 ), in which he strongly criticizes the American election system, describing it as " befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world's leading democracy ".

Andrew Keen, a critic of Web 2. 0, criticizes some of the Free Culture ideas in his book, Cult of the Amateur, describing Lessig as an " intellectual property communist ".

Clement criticizes Greek paganism in the Protrepticus on the basis that its deities are both false and poor moral examples, and he attacks the mystery religions for their obscurantism and trivial rituals.

Rosa LuxemburgLeft communism ' is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas of the Bolsheviks at certain periods, from a position that is asserted to be more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views of Leninism held by the Communist International after its first and during its second congress.

He criticizes the Mass of Paul VI for what he calls its " Protestantizations ", such as referring to the service as a " supper " with a " table " and " cup " instead of a " sacrifice " with an " altar " and " chalice ", making the congregation, in his view, the center of worship instead of God, and so forth.

The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments ; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.

It originated during the Seattle anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism and its associated institutions.

Black criticizes work for its compulsion, and, in industrial society, for taking the form of " jobs " -- the restriction of the worker to a single limited task, usually one which involves no creativity and often no skill.

Edward Nelson criticizes the classical conception of natural numbers because of the circularity of its definition.

A 2012 documentary with the title " Bottled Life " criticizes Nestlés practices concerning its water business.

The British military historian John Keegan in summarizing the debate over the plan, criticizes it for its lack of realism about the speed with which the right wing of the German army would be able to wheel through Belgium and the Netherlands in order to arrive outside of Paris on schedule.

In early 2005, Whitman released a book entitled It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party ... And Bringing the Country Together Again in which she criticizes the policies of the George W. Bush administration and its electoral strategy, which she views as divisive.

He criticizes Saint-Martin's ideal due to its similarity to France's feudal order before the Revolution in which the rule of the monarch was legitimized by the Divine right of kings.

An article on the categorization of new religious movements in U. S. print media published by The Association for the Sociology of Religion ( formerly the American Catholic Sociological Society ), criticizes the print media for failing to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of new religious movements, and its tendency to use popular or anti-cultist definitions rather than social-scientific insight, and asserts that " The failure of the print media to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of religious movement organizations impels us to add yet another failing mark to the media report card Weiss ( 1985 ) has constructed to assess the media's reporting of the social sciences.

Kołakowski criticizes Sartre for introducing many superfluous neologisms, writing that aside from these it does not contain a genuinely new interpretation of Marxism ; he sees its view of the historical character of perception and knowledge and its rejection of the dialectic of nature as stemming from the work of György Lukács.

" He sarcastically criticizes the newspaper for its abundant use of colors and flashy, uninformative infographics.

For instance, a Mises blog entry notes that a bakery is refusing to put Disney characters on its customized birthday cakes, lest it be liable for infringement ; another blog criticizes the Marvel Comics lawsuit over the City of Heroes game that allows players to create characters that resemble those from its comic books.

The US department of state criticizes in its human rights report 2005 that not enough has been done to repair or restore damaged and destroyed sites.

# The method of science — the only one whereby inquiry can, by its own account, go wrong ( fallibilism ), and purposely tests itself and criticizes, corrects, and improves itself.

That the Israeli government criticizes its own treatment of Arabs is a testament to its democracy ; can anyone imagine, say, the Saudi regime offering similar criticisms of its treatment of Shiites, non-Muslims or women?