Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The most remarkable thing about the character of the English," said an Indian writer, reviewing the years of British rule in his home country, "is their zeal for writing essays about the English character. This launches one straightway into the melancholy conjecture that self-admiration is the primary British failing...
Henry Wallace does not quite suit Moscow yet. Writing in the Kremlin mouthpiece, the New Times, high-ranking Soviet Writer V. M. Berezhkov noted some ideas of a "naive and Utopian character" in Wallace's book, Toward World Peace. Particularly naive, thought Berezhkov, is Wallace's idea that...
But no Prokosch character is ever really motivated by goals so easily stated. It is Marius who blows his top one night and rips down the facade of their pretenses: "We've all been lying. Cheating. Masquerading . . . What is it we're really after? . . . One wants peace. Another...
¶ In Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new...
The leading character is Robert Grant, who is fiftyish, roly-poly, and "a moral leper." Grant spends his life chasing women and dollars with obsessive passion; he is not a hypocrite, since he lacks the degree of self-awareness necessary for hypocrisy; he is simply an ugly tub of flesh...