Sontag's notorious attack on Arbus, in an essay from 1973 that became the linchpin of her book "On Photography" (1977), passed one test of great criticism.
One test of a true work of art is that it is open to multiple possibilities.
Yet their work passed one test of art: it made people dream.
One test of good writing is whether it expands the scope of what seems literary.
One test of whether Republicans are having second thoughts may occur this weekend in Searchlight, Nev.
Of course, one test of how passionate researchers are about stretching is to ask them whether they themselves stretch.
One test of a truly great song is an ability to listen to it dozens of times without screaming.
One test of a cancer surgeon is knowing when surgery is pointless and when to forge ahead.
One test of the exam makeover will be the impact of removing modular exams from the curriculum.
One test of that importance is what happens when it is absent, or thought to be absent.
One test of major poetry is that if we imagine eradicating the work from history, significant branches of the tradition vanish with it.
