Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hole in the Sky. A comparatively new problem is the effect of the moon's shadow on the ionized layers in the earth's upper atmosphere. These layers have a profound influence on radio transmission: they bounce some radio waves back and allow others to pass through. Since...
Historian Link sees a strong likeness between Princeton's Wilson (whom the University trustees eventually forced out) and the Wilson of the White House. "During the first years of both administrations, Wilson drove . . . through a magnificent reform program. . . . His accomplishments both at Princeton and Washington were great and enduring...
The prospect was unnerving, even for a seasoned cultivator of U.S. tribal manners like the State Department's Protocol Division. In March, Mexico had nearly blown Harry Truman's hat off with a welcome heard round the hemisphere. This week, Mexican President Miguel Aleman was due north on...
If it had no other virtues-and it has many-the film is a daring individual gesture, dared in an era when such acts are rare. One of the world's most inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from...
...powers of intuition, of pure feeling, and of observation. The set pieces of pure slapstick are as skilled and delightful, and as psychologically penetrating, as any Chaplin has ever contrived. The casting (including Victim Margaret .Hoffman) is excellent and there are a couple of dozen fine pieces of characterization and acting, notably by Isobel Elsom and Martha Raye. Working with a new character, and adapting his old, mute artfulness to a medium new and basically hostile to him, Chaplin still has his sure virtuosity; his is one of the most beautiful single performances ever put on film...