Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a sound and sober analysis of the results of the NATO meeting (see THE PARIS CONFERENCE). The leaders of NATO had agreed unanimously to arm the Atlantic Alliance with history's most powerful weapons despite the Kremlin's threats that this could bring their extinction; they...
Died. E. G. (Ernest George) Harcourt Williams, 77, deft, wizened character actor of the British stage (more than 200 plays), screen (Hamlet, Roman Holiday), radio and TV, who joined the Old Vic in 1929, produced (in four years) some 50 plays, revitalized Shakespearean production, introduced works of his old chum...
...little cold. A more stylized and more dramatic approach would improve both the performance's pace and its credibility. There is little sense of dramatic response between one character and another. Eugene Pell as the Merchant is the major offender, with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch with the serious spirit of the play...
There has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference,"--a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference...
BY LOVE POSSESSED, by James Gould Cozzens. The best U.S. novel of the year, wrought of many kinds of love and their power to strengthen or warp character, make or break the lives of man or woman. Through its lawyer hero, the book also deals with something most U.S. novelists...