Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oh, it isn't really a matter of conformity. The roar of the twenties was also a sort of conformity; the goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and...
Maugham wrote his bestseller during the era of the not-quite-emancipated woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but...
Wrong Way Corrigan. Enter Horab Greenbloom, a character so prodigious that he nearly runs away with the book. Horab can only be described in superlatives of wealth, intelligence, vitality and childishness. He drives his Bentley at top speed, depending for guidance on his passengers ("What's that coming up...
The incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she...
He cannot, but his one-man band plays on to the rock and roll of the wide Pacific. Amid all the dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things...