Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have been other observers of human behavior who hold opposite views from the learned professor. Says Anthropologist Robert Briffault, "stupidity is deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is...
Al Shean (né Schoenberg), as Father Malachy, atones for lack of force by endearing benignity. He was just as endearing nearly 18 years ago when, with the late Ed Gallagher, he stepped out on a Bronx vaudeville stage to introduce a refrain that still echoes its "Positively, Mr. Gallagher...
This engaging character was Achille-Claude Debussy, who died in 1918. He had to wait until last week and the appearance of his first American biography*-his third in English-for a book that would do justice to his lush Bohemian personality and his stature as a composer. Author Thompson...
In his sermon yesterday before a Memorial Church filled to capacity (at least 50 people standing), despite the disagreeable weather, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Riverside Church in New York City emphasized the value of the dependable character, a "fixed point in a changing age."
As for color, perhaps we have been spoiled by the perfection of "A Star Is Born," the color in the present film completely obscures both plot and character portrayal, and even with its black and white, "Hurricane" paints a far truer picture of the South Seas atmosphere than does "Ebb...