Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved in a degrading alliance with an unscrupulous psychiatrist who professes to be of the same breed as the "marauders" who amassed the Wyler fortune and hence the proper custodian for it. The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact." It makes no difference to him, he declares, "whether they prattle on full bellies or prattle on empty bellies...
As a whole, these short notes combine to make a singularly entertaining history of the literary tastes of the United States since 1900. They recall the prudery of the early 1900s, which "labored with a quiet stubbornness to restrict every character in magazine fiction to possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet...
Probably the basic theory behind the cross-section plan has been the fear that one or two of the Houses will play the role of step-sisters and collect only cast-offs from other Houses. To a degree this may well work out, but it is a greatly exaggerated idea...
Although the film is played in modern dress, its humor is of another and more gentle age. Among the characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English...
I have recently been reading some of your letters to T. Pomponius Atticus. Are you surprised? And here I would ask you: Did you mean these epistles one day to be given to the public? I should doubt it. But whether yes or no the trick is done. Leave such...