Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Who in hell are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, anyway? Merely Nobel Prizewinners who have written sentimental slop . . . And Steinbeck-pooh ! A lowly proletarian who drips grief over his characters. Then there's James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his...
IN T. S.Eliot's The Cocktail Party, a Broadway success eight seasons ago, a middle-aged character complains to an acquaintance: "I am obsessed by the thought of my own insignificance." His friend, a psychiatrist who understands him well, poetically replies:
What's worse, the difficulties of Eves-dropping are complicated by the inevitable fact that movies are made to be seen, and the camera has not been invented that can dolly around the landscape of the soul. Actress Joanne Woodward, a television player who is easily the twinklingest star...
Look Here! brings NBC's bowstringtaut Martin Agronsky, 42, into what he calls "the tremendously rich area between Mike Wallace and Ed Murrow." In the paneled, high-ceilinged office of John Foster Dulles, Agronsky tested his new concept-"penetrating the wellsprings of character"-to good effect. By exploring areas...
For Look Here! (Sun. 3:30 E.D.T.) Graff has drawn up another impressive roster: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Edith Hamilton, Jimmy Hoffa, Noel Coward, Jack Kennedy, Ethel Merman, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. He and Agronsky also plan to fly to Havana to interview Dictator Batista via the...