Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price plays magnificently, Fonda competently, and Bel Geddes sweetly. The villain, a conjurer who tries to hypnotize the young people, has some of the over-dramatic flair of John Barrymore, and is by far the most fascinating character in the movie, while Ann Dvorak, as a friend who rebels from...
When Augustin Daly [and Joseph Howard] dramatized the novel (Worrell Sisters' New York Theater, Nov. 11, 1867), he expanded Beecher's . . . character into a major part for Miss Jennie Worrell, the youngest of the three famed theatrical sisters. . . .
Lining up concrete plans for a drive among Harvard Alumni, representatives of the Business School Student Association, the Law School Phillips Brooks Committee, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council, and the Divinity School Association met with Council President Edric A Weld, Jr. '46 Monday afternoon to set...
Fronti Nulla Fides. Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man...
Passion for Power. Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of the trilogy, is a Chicago traction magnate and stock manipulator, an obnoxious example of greed, he is socially snubbed and politically hobbled during a reform movement. The Stoic depicts his attempts to muscle in on the underground transportation system of...