Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hide-&-Seek. Serving up his own bold "antidote to long-entrenched clichés" about Victorian monstrosity, Author Maass says that the American architecture of the period was "distinguished by its pleasurable fancy and exuberant color." Some of the public buildings, e.g., Philadelphia's City Hall, were not in...
Finding the People. Harry Belafonte is currently one of the briskest-selling items in show business. He has signed a ten-year, $10,000-a-year contract with RCA Victor, is negotiating a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox and a contract with NBC to do four TV spectaculars...
To supply the new market, the character of the U.S. boat industry is changing. New boat trailers make it possible for a family to buy a boat, keep it in their backyard and tow it along behind the family car to any lake or seashore launching spot. Estimates are that...
Earnest Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of...