Criticism
Upon selection as executive director of AIDS Action Council, Barnes's tenure with the New York department of health came under criticism by Bryan Wallace. An activist with ACT UP/Washington was quoted as saying his selection was a "commitment to mediocrity" by the AIDS community, which should have chosen a director living with AIDS. Barnes was not.
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“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
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“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
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