Summary
Ch.18 Writing About the Arts: Critics and Columnists
critic和reviewer是不一样的，reviewer是比较大众化的评论，critic则要求更多的专业素养。
作者关于成为一个好的critic和reviewer建议：
- Critics should like—or, better still, love—the medium they are reviewing.
- Don’t give away too much of the plot.
- Use specific detail. This avoids dealing in generalities, which, being generalities, mean nothing.
- Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic’s quiver—words like “enthralling” and “luminous.” Good criticism needs a lean and vivid style to express what you observed and what you think.
- Humor
另外，好的评论也要有一个吸引人的开头，快速带着读者进入这个作品的世界。
Vocab
grim, endure, drive
Like the Dutchmen whose point of view he often presents with a grim sense of fair play, he is stubborn; he endures his own bad weather; he drives the cattle of his facts until they drop.
grim 严肃的，忧愁的，沮丧的
e.g. The future looks grim.
[造句] He was grim and silent, and we knew the result was not good.
endure 忍受，忍耐
e.g. We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.
[造句] Though studying math is difficult, we must endure.
endure也有持久，持续的意思，与last意思相同
drive 驱赶，赶走
drive the cattle 放牛
