Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH WERE NEVER PUT TO ME . . . ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1) I KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF POLAND BUT ASSUME THAT ITS POLICIES ARE LARGELY THOSE OF MOSCOW INASMUCH AS ITS DELEGATE IN THE U.N. CUSTOMARILY VOTES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SOVIET UNION DELEGATE. 2...
"We are confronted here with some thing that will change the character of our country," he declared.
Like a number of Dickens' novels, "Great Expectations" is loosely constructed. It centers around the boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end...
Every character is a type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in...
The principal character is Mrs. Marsan, an idle widow on an annuity who in real life would be rated as an unbearable nuisance. She pries into her neighbors' personal affairs, is happiest when unsuspecting lovers or brawlers are focused in her handy opera glasses. With the bumbling kindliness of...