Word: acter
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...duel which ends so fatally for him. Tradition has it that Marlowe was killed in a vulgar tavern brawl, but in the play the more honorable motive for the quarrel has been supplied. From the cynical genius and voluptuous coarseness of the traditional Marlowe, has been created a charater acter which, struggling with the religious doubts of a deep thinker, comes to its end in a manner worthy of the noblest nature in chivalry...
...would reach. One of the most powerful weapons of the man who would be a leader in public affairs, is the command of his voice. We are repelled or attracted by the tones by which a speaker employs, and it is therefore of the utmost value to the acter that he is in control of the means by which he can conciliate and move his hearers. In a country like our own where every man may feel called upon to take part in public affairs, and indeed where men are sometimes drawn into a political career almost against their will...