Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though there is no "character development" of the traditional kind, the Grandfather, the head of the house, gradually emerges as a monumental figure. The other characters are hardly less moving and memorable. There is so little story, and it is so simply and deeply germane to daily life, that it...
No alarming traits of any sort marked John Harvard's character, John O. Gates '51 assured the College yesterday when he disclosed that samples of Jawn's signature reveal "an objective and dispassionate personality, modest and direct, with plenty of good taste."
Billings' selection of detail told a lot about Calvin Coolidge, the stock from which he sprang, and a lot about the U.S. and about a period which, even in 1933, was becoming dim. The "point" of the story was news because, although it may be hidden, the New England...
There are other perils-a dissolving perspective of paradox. Man's knowledge is limited, but not completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total...
"Based" is such an elastic word, it is hard to distinguish fact from fiction. Everybody (especially Vladimir Sokoloff) acts like a character in a half-believable movie melodrama. But some of the things they do are so incredible that they are obviously current history.