Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they...
The trouble with The Leading Lady was not that it preferred glamor to reality but that it never came close to either. It requires a little more than costumes, clichés and a liberal sprinkling of famous names to make a period and a profession seem lustrous; simply calling...
As soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character...
The special appeal of an activities center is its association with a general, rather than with a departmental interest of the members of the University; and the only question of its suitability as a memorial, apart from its possibly prohibitive cost, is whether its memorial character might wear away as...
The single character which links these sequences together is called "Joe." He is presented as an unemployed veteran who finds that he can look into a person's eyes and tell what that person dreams about or wants to dream about. So Joe puts a shingle up on his door...