Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assigned to West Point as an English instructor, Scholar John housed his growing family in a tiny walk-up apartment, enrolled at Columbia University (where his father soon became President) to earn his M.A. in English literature. (Thesis: The Soldier as a Character in Elizabethan Drama.) In mid-1952, while...
"Just Honestly." Loyal fans were not dying to have them go. They would not soon forget bald, bulb-nosed-Kukla and mischievous Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he...
Angel really knows nothing of the high life she preposterously describes (in her books, champagne bottles are opened with corkscrews). Indeed, she knows nothing of life at all, and refuses to learn. She does not copy from other books: it all comes out of the recesses of her appalling imagination...
The Real Enemy. Author Fred Majdalany, a British newspaperman, fought at Cassino (with the Lancashire Fusiliers) and has already used it as the scene of a novel (The Monastery). His descriptions of tactics and close-in fighting are masterly, his assessment of the principals sometimes harsh. He censures Winston Churchill...
The Clouded Glass. Novelist Cozzens has a mind like a lamp, and every character and event in By Love Possessed is bathed in the glow of a reflective intelligence. Every motivation rings true; each episode is part of a seamless whole; the taste of reality is unmistakable. The audacious scope...