Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for Sonny's moments of inspired brathood and tantrums, the only really bright, vital character is an extremely likable boy who appears in Act II to take the reluctant Reenie to a dance. He commits suicide before Act III. Depressing as this may be, it is the strongest act...
The Met's seasonal curtain raiser was its first production in 36 years of Tchaikovsky's faded period piece, Eugene Onegin. At the end of the second act, the character known as Lenski sings one of the most meltingly popular tenor arias in Russian opera ("Oh where have...
Unpleasant Revelation. Why, asks Author West, has the world so falsified the character of Hamlet? "If a work of art should make a revelation which discredits what most human beings wish to believe," she writes, "they pretend that the author wrote something quite other than what he did." The world...
Webb certainly knows about the dryness of Texas and the Great Plains, but he is not sufficiently aware of the mountains and verdant, irrigated vallies of the Northern Rocky Mountain States. Another weakness in his analysis of the character of the West is his lack of concern with the social...
The book is oddly reminiscent of BarChester Towers. Instead of Trollope's worldly clergy with fat cathedral livings. there are the Communist hierarchs of the "New Class." Instead of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, the cruel nonsense of dialectical truth provides the rules of the...