"A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste."
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Dinosaurs in the Morning, Introduction (1962)
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Whitney Balliett
Whitney Lyon Balliett (April 17, 1926 – February 1, 2007) was a jazz critic and book reviewer for The New Yorker who was published by the journal from 1954 until 2001.
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