Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Telegraph correspondent suggested that it was merely VIPS (the wartime phrase for Very Important Persons) spelled backwards. "With demobilization, the term came into civvy street [and] received its demob suit with all its original connotation-that of a person having a good time at the expense of others." Gossip...
Monty Woolley, who has played The Man Who Came to Dinner on stage, on screen & off for the last eight years, finally had to put in for stomach repairs. In Albany, he had a "successful" operation, was soon feeling well enough to go right back into character. When an interne...
It is exciting to hear anti-Semitism discussed openly in a movie. But the chances are that this well-meant film will exasperate at least as many anti-Semites as it dissuades. It is gruesome to watch such a character as that played by Robert Ryan. But his hatred is...
This is perhaps the best novel yet written by an American about postwar Germany. It is sometimes too stagey, often too self-consciously penetrating in its analysis of character. But it is honest, observant, and has a theme at once simple and troubling. Its hero, Lieut. Cooper, works in the...
Rousseau: "I was sure of that. It is my test of character. There you have the despotic instinct of men. They do not like cats because the cat is free, and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals do...