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What Naipaul's statement does is raise the question: can ordinary criticism support his endorsement?
These were the years in which Dylan invented his mature style and placed himself beyond ordinary criticism: "The question would be less about his identity or his relevance than about what duties he was assigning himself".
It seems to me that what sets this incident apart from any ordinary criticism of the government (and we hear those on a daily basis from all fronts) is that these statements came from someone who is expected to wholeheartedly support our nation's president and administration, and that he chose to voice his opinions in such a public manner.
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In ordinary literary criticism — the kind that splits the difference between art and science — there is a give-and-take between the general and the particular.
There is similar criticism among ordinary Albanians, and even within his own party.
While I concur with Margolick's criticism that "ordinary folks" are "missing" from "Life Upon These Shores," Gates's book is nonetheless a worthwhile 21st-century addition to "black achievement literature".
A prime merit of the ordinary journalistic practice of criticism, as distinguished from intellectual history or scholarship, is the inescapable, even enforced contact with a wide range of artists in a particular art form at a particular time.
The Bush Administration's decision to seek information about the search requests of ordinary users triggered significant criticism from many privacy advocates.
On the basis of his naturalistic metaphysics, Spinoza also offers trenchant criticisms of ordinary conceptions of right and duty.
Then there are the untold thousands of paid commentators who pose as ordinary Web users to counter criticism of the government.
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