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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet all this does not so much precipitate a mood as prescribe a method. One by one, each character is led up to the dark at the top of the stairs and revealed in his hair shirt. And each character's inner wound, however honestly representative, is dramatically a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

The Makropoulos Secret (by Karel Capek) is a kind of philosophic mystery story-by the author of R.U.R.-first produced in the '20s. It is the kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Bequest to Venice. Now 59, with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Duchess | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

I am amazed that the CRIMSON appears to be completely unaware of the present Committee to Evaluate the Student Council, its function and organization. Its criticism will be heavy, but if the creative suggestions are implemented a more effective Council will result. Obviously, however, future loopholes will develop with changing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNSELING THE COUNCIL | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

In Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

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