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    Gilbert Vivian Seldes (/ˈsɛldəs/; January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama...
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    enumeration page including household of Gilbert Seldes and documentation relating to his 19-month-old daughter Marian H. Seldes, Manhattan Borough, New York City...
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  • critic Gilbert Seldes was George Seldes's younger brother. Actress Marian Seldes was his niece; his nephew was the literary agent Timothy Seldes. He was...
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  • Gilbert Seldes (1893–1970), American writer and cultural critic, brother of George Marian Seldes (1928–2014), American actress, daughter of Gilbert Paul...
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  • occasional investigation of comics as a valid art form, specifically in Gilbert Seldes' The 7 Lively Arts (1924), Martin Sheridan's Comics and Their Creators...
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  • Several managing editors worked for The Dial during the twenties: Gilbert Seldes (1922–23), Kenneth Burke (1923), Alyse Gregory (1923–25). Due to Thayer's...
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    iconoclastic." Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the English language...
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    popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. Gilbert Seldes' article "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the earliest example...
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  • trees that guaranteed the brummagem umbrageousness of Riverside Drive". Gilbert Seldes, in his 1924 book The Seven Lively Arts, wrote in praise of Krazy Kat:...
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    widely praised by intellectuals and treated as "serious" art. Art critic Gilbert Seldes wrote a lengthy panegyric to the strip in 1924, calling it "the most...
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  • The show did receive a somewhat favorable review from noted critic Gilbert Seldes in the December 15, 1962 TV Guide: "The whole notion on which The Beverly...
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  • cooperation with the Educational Television and Radio Center. Hosted by Gilbert Seldes with the musical direction of Billy Taylor, the show featured prominent...
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  • highly acclaimed Disney short films. Esquire magazine cultural critic Gilbert Seldes wrote that "[none of] dozens of works produced in America at the same...
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    Frieda Inescort and Edward G. Robinson. The adaptation was written by Gilbert Seldes, who employed a narrator (Godfrey Tearle) to fill in gaps in the story...
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    investigate Profiles's authorship. In May 1957, two weeks after the award, Gilbert Seldes discussed the rumor that Kennedy had not written the book in The Village...
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  • (1936). "Sawdust Caesar; The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism. By Gilbert Seldes. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1935. Pp. xv, 459.)". American Political...
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    Last. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1934. ISBN 978-0-598-58940-8. (With Gilbert Seldes Preface) The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner. Charles Scribner's...
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    the influential book of the same name written by the cultural critic Gilbert Seldes, in which he argued that the low arts (comics, vaudeville) deserved...
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    American literature, writing that it had "set [him] back twenty years". Gilbert Seldes, who first published the poem in the US, and Pound, its editor, both...
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    Fall semester of 1959 and graduated in the Spring semester of 1960. Gilbert Seldes was the first dean at the school, serving from 1959 until 1963. George...
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  • American poet, editor, and professor of English literature. Along with Gilbert Seldes, Mitchell’s editorship of The Dial magazine signaled a pivotal shift...
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  • Roberts (Honorary 2016) – Billionaire, chairman, and CEO of Comcast Gilbert Seldes (Honorary 1960) – writer, cultural critic, and founding dean of the...
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    Elijah the Tishbite". New York Almanack. Retrieved February 7, 2022. Gilbert Seldes, The Stammering Century (New York: John Day, 1928) p. 125. Paul E. Johnson...
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    the Paris edition, and elicited endorsements from Ford Madox Ford, Gilbert Seldes, John Dos Passos, and Donald Ogden Stewart. Boni & Liveright claimed...
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    as well as his parallel interest in children's culture. Referring to Gilbert Seldes' Seven Lively Arts (1924) which championed the aesthetic merits of popular...
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    ISBN 978-0-7864-2908-0. Wagenknecht, 1962 p. 61: Wagenknecht is citing a report from Gilbert Seldes on Chaplin’s remark while Chaplin was filming Modern Times (1936). See...
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  • 1917) 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886) 1970 – Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (b. 1893) 1972 – Kathleen Clarke...
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    Lincoln MacVeagh, Arthur Wilson (later known as Winslow Wilson) and Gilbert Seldes. A large dormitory for freshmen at Harvard, in which E. E. Cummings...
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  • He becomes, in effect, the "tricky and roguish" character cited by Gilbert Seldes as the quintessence of the comic strip. I worked for a syndicate manager...
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  • broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR). May – Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly magazine...
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