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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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It would be a blessing if the present Supreme Court could be impeached and replaced with American patriots (not politicians) having the character and ability to defend their nation's institutions from the machinations of an ideology that has enslaved so many millions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Giraudoux's style has some notable qualities. Amphitryon 38 is a farrago of dramatic styles. Giraudoux merges realism with history, legend with fantasy, and the lyrical with the intellectual and philosophical. His unique talent imbues the erudite classical and rational with the whimsical, imaginative and romantic--distilling a sparkling essence...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Amphitryon 38 | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

Heights of Adequacy. Next week Kim Novak will mark a new milestone: the U.S. release of Jeanne Eagels, the first movie designed as her personal vehicle and thoroughly dominated by the character she plays. Until now, she has been shrewdly cast in roles that seemed remarkably varied yet actually made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man's Last Chance | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

When all is said and done, Britain's achievement in 1940 was one of character. Fleming shows his own special character in his assessment of this, resorts neither to Freud nor to any mythological flimflam, but to an editorial in the London Times. It was neither pride nor preoccupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Their Funniest Hour | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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