Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Every people has its own ideas of art, determined by the inherent temperament of the race. The European temperament is enormously different in character from that found in America."
...Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with its penchant for neutrals. The effects must be created quickly--partly because so many, almost too many, characters are introduced--and the characterization is more rapid, more intense, more dramatic than in the works of, say Sterne or Madge Kennedy. It is, moreover, very good on the whole, and few writers can produce a life-like image in so few words as can Mr. Cozzens. And in addition to being convincing, his people...
WITH his Harper Prize Novel, "The Grandmothers," Glenway Wescott sprang into literary prominence. With the remains of that impetus he now gives us a collection of short stories. Some of them were written before the prize novel, some after. At all events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The...
Excess Baggage. Among cinemaddicts there is a tendency to confuse their aversion to a character with their critical judgment of the actor's exposition. Particularly is this true in the case of William Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his...
When passed within the next three months (there being no opposition) this measure will entirely alter the democratic character of the Italian Constitution and Parliament, and will transform the Fascist Party's Grand Council into the superior directing chamber of the State.