Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In literature, swaggering Dean Moriarty is perhaps closest in his amorality to a character created by Petronius Arbiter in the ist century A.D.-the rascally Encolpius, who lived by his wits in Nero's fat and frightened time. In contemporary terms, Moriarty seems even closer to a prison psychosis...
Beneath all the froth is a superb, incisive character study of the two men. Bourvil's slow mind can concentrate only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means...
Comedy or Truth? Gogol was a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the "mysterious dwarf." His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother...
He was a great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is...
Esprit de Corps. In Brentwood, England, a British army officer, testifying on behalf of two of his men charged with car theft, conceded that they were inclined to be lawless, slovenly, irresponsible and lazy, but assured the court that they had "good army character."