Here are the 16 things I learned: 1. Man, oh, man, was Dwight Macdonald a great, lively critic.
As Daniel Mendelsohn might point out, the traits that make her a lively critic — her irascibility and unsparing eye, her predilection to pronounce rather than persuade — doom her as a personal essayist.
An imaginative, lively critic and productive scholar, Edward authored/co-authored numerous books and journal articles, including "The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare" and "The Sense of the Sixties".
In part this was due to his lively engagement with critics and his attempts to respond to their objections, and also to his recognition that his doctrines required further articulation than he had provided in earlier writings.
The lively British rock critic Dorian Lynskey — he writes for The Guardian, among other publications — spends some time in his new book, "33 Revolutions Per Minute," chewing over why most protest songs are heaped with scorn.
The coverage could not be called biased, because it reported the reactions of all sides, but neither could it be called bold.One exception is Apple Daily, a lively tabloid accused by critics of being a tool of radical activists.
Kael's reputation among film buffs and fellow critics for honest, lively, and penetrating criticism led to the publication in 1965 of a collection of her articles in book form under the characteristic title I Lost It at the Movies.
D1 OBITUARIES B6-7 Vincriticanby A critic whose lively wit and sophisticated tastes illuminated film and theater reviews in The New York Times for more than 35 years, he was 76.
It is a principle that the lively, intelligent, combative cultural critic Lee Siegel forgot in autumn 2006, when he gave in to the temptation to respond to comments about him posted on his blog at The New Republic's Web site.
Annoyingly for those of us who do this for a living, Lethem proves himself an uncommonly passionate and persuasive music critic in his lively study of the album Talking Heads – Fear of Music (Continuum).
