Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LABOR That's My Boy Charged with embezzling the $4,650 he collected on the sale of two Cadillacs owned by the Teamsters Union, paunchy, balding Dave Beck Jr., 37, last week watched a doubtful character witness speak up for him in Seattle's King County courthouse. The...
But if fancily tragic, The Rope Dancers is nowhere facilely sentimental; it nowhere stoops to conquer. And beyond a certain feeling for character, 43-year-old Playwright Wishengrad in his first play has his own determined way of looking at things. Once he sees only what is there, it should...
His too-pat shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such...
The best thing about it all is the character of the professor, who puddles around quoting Zeno and being abstract, and turns out to be perceptive even about one or two of the details of everyday existence. Sex, for instance. His bland assertion of delightfully simple and complex statements is...
"Well," said his host, "I think you spent too much time describing Walter Price." (A practiced liar who went to Groton and Yale). "It seems as though he is your main character."