Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The best comedy is the comedy of situation or of memorable character. Any playwright who attempts to pass off a motley collection of gags and giggles as a "light dramatic composition" is treading on thin ice, and Norman Krasna has not escaped the usual pitfalls in his latest effort to...
Rising up on the floor of the House, he blandly attacked the character of Under Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Will Clayton. He thundered that General Marshall should boot them both out of office. His harebrained charge: "making exorbitant profits by reason of their high places."
This phenomenon can be traced most directly to James Stewart's performance and Frank Capra's direction. Stewart, as a fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost...
Professor Wright expressed similar sentiments, stating that "the courses in General Education were announced as being experimental, and we intend to continue to view them as being of that character, at least until we have had several years in which to try them out and a great deal of data...
Stealing cars, in the hope of making big money fast, leads Percy to manslaughter and the Old Bailey. All of Author Collins' characters have enough vitality to create interest and amuse, but it is the vast, murmuring world in which they live that gives Dulcimer Street its strength and...