It seemed depressingly ironic that Young, such a critic of television, was going to be a star of the Hall of Fame's first MTV broadcast".
Carlo Ripa di Meana, who has died aged 88, was European commissioner for the environment in the 1980s — and such a critic of the UK's record on green issues that he was known as "the Grim Ripa".
"Nellie got to be such a critic that everybody who was around of any note would ask Nellie, 'How's this sound?' " Many women had been involved in jazz long before they met their husbands.
There is also a brilliant performance by Mr. Holtzman of "Pianississimo," a virtuoso piano sonata composed in 1970 and hailed in its time by Andrew Porter as "a peak of 20th-century piano music". That such a critic could say such a thing of such a work is indeed a sign of times gone by, but there is still something that needs saying about this music.
And these answers are not hard to find when we live in such a critic-based society.
A wise person, such a critic would argue, needs to know how to live well (as described by Nozick), but she also needs to have some deep and far-reaching theoretical, or factual, knowledge that may have very little impact on her daily life, practical decisions, or well being.
If there is any institution that could elicit such a response, critics say, its Darul Uloom Haqqania.
Such a reduction, critics fear, could have a disproportionate effect on Medicaid spending for nursing home care for the elderly or disabled.
Such a challenge, critics said, would almost certainly draw a counterattack from organized labor, and lead to a costly, drawn-out and uncertain court fight.
Such a provision, critics say, would make companies hesitant to turn over information on defects to federal regulators and prompt companies not to cooperate in safety investigations.
