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Alex_Sanders
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I keep encountering people who think "critical" means carping or fault-finding, and nothing more. So it would seem that the critic's pen, once mightier than the sword, has been supplanted by the ax. Yet I have always maintained that the critic has three duties: to write as well as a novelist or playwright; to be a teacher, taking off from where the classroom, always prematurely, has stopped, and to be a thinker, looking beyond his specific subject at society, history, philosophy. Reduce him to a consumer guide, run his reviews on a Web site mixed in with the next-door neighbor's pontifications, and you condemn criticism to obsolescence.
Based on the above paragraph, which of the following qualities was NOT mentioned/deemed essential by the author as a critique?
A Enlightening and instructional
B Original thinking
C Matter-of-fact attitude
D Philosophical insight
Based on the above paragraph, which of the following qualities was NOT mentioned/deemed essential by the author as a critique?
A Enlightening and instructional
B Original thinking
C Matter-of-fact attitude
D Philosophical insight