Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ABC, with some of the top crooners in show business under contract, also plans to tame the wild frontier with some likely-looking cowpokes from the stables of Warner Bros. Biggest and most expensive property is tantrum-prone Frank Sinatra, who will headline two live hour-long spectaculars, 13 half...
Last week, in a Page One Houston Post story that got to the commercial core of the matter, Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to...
Mysterious Initial. Voss, White's fictional explorer, is clearly drawn from the character of the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, an eccentric, bungling visionary who disappeared with his party in the interior of Australia in 1848. Later, the initial "L" was found carved on many trees, and expeditions vainly sought...
The book is also a hymn to Alexandria, a city that has "a strong flavor without having any real character," where sects as well as sex proliferate. Between bouts of love, Justine searches for something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms...
Author White, his country's only considerable novelist since the death in 1946 of Henry Handel Richardson, has filled his most ambitious book to date ostensibly with the adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent'...