31.   For all his stature as a social critic, William Faulkner is most important as an innovative stylist, enormously influential as such.

32.   Forget earnest social critics.

33.   Gregory, the former comic turned acid-tongued social critic, has long believed the CIA and FBI were up to no good when it came to blacks.

34.   He ducks his head into the next-door office of Cornel West, the African-American philosopher and social critic.

35.   He is an arbiter and a social critic for sports culture at a time when it has never been more multifaceted and prominent.

36.   His list includes Vincent, the journalist Andrew Sullivan and the social critic Camille Paglia.

37.   Iconoclastic writer and social critic Stanley Crouch made the point eloquently on National Public Radio recently.

38.   In particular, some social critics worry aloud that the academic pressure of junior high school and the regimented nature of society are turning some children into monsters.

39.   In her memoir, the culinary writer describes the ups and downs of her stormy marriage to the historian and social critic Paul Fussell.

40.   Indeed, she was far ahead of her time, as a social critic generally and as a feminist in particular.