The response was against a letter column, but the readers wanted editorials, and short book reviews with recommendations that would help them identify what books to buy, as opposed to in-depth criticism.
Unfortunately, while we are provided an index of contemporary criticism of great value to the student who can use Slavick's book as an introduction to more in-depth criticism and commentary, in the cursory and elliptical format that Slavick has submitted, the coherence required to formulate a compelling argument for or against any given issue remains fugitive.
The New York Times got it all wrong ("Union Battle in California Threatens SEIU"), and San Francisco's online news journal Beyond Chron published an in-depth criticism of the New York Times's errors ("Greenhouse Violates NY Times Policyy in SEIU-NUHW Story").
In America, you get much more in-depth theatre criticism.
Judging by the internet chatter, it has attracted plenty of in-depth amateur criticism and sent students scurrying back to their philosophy texts with fresh enthusiasm.
Some offer in-depth literary criticism but use humor and anecdotes to keep the language from getting too dry.
In his book The New Novel in Latin America La Nueva Novelaa), Fuentes offers an in-depth literary criticism of the positive influence Vargas Llosa's work has had on Latin American literature.
Speaking to Playboy magazine in 1991, Mr. Ebert agreed that his television program at the time was "not a high-level, in-depth film-criticism show".
Some subsequent effects or a more in-depth self-criticism only seems to appear after a certain interval of time (in this case 12 months), meaning that these interventions need to be reviewed after longer periods of time to enable actions to be proposed to resolve problems that were only recognized at a later stage.
The bishops' statement appeared to recognize the depth of the criticism directed at a church hierarchy for its failure to grasp the extent of public anger at the disclosures.
Don't expect the comedy of manners, the depth of social criticism, the complexity of character or the crafty construction of "The Misanthrope" or "School for Wives" (or "School for Husbands" ) or whatever Moliere you may have grown accustomed to.
