Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In her name-dropping autobiography, R.S.V.P., fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not...
"About every three years some one would raise the question wouldn't we save money in General Motors if we centralized the thing and did all the buying in one big place, pointing out that the Buick company paid a few cents more a thousand for some nuts or...
Rage is Kazan's undoing. He hacks and hews with such ill-considered fury that the patient soon becomes a mere victim and the satire falls to pieces. The victim (Andy Griffith) is a big-time TV entertainer, a professional yokel. Behind his hawg-trough grin stands a greedy...
The Ames Awards will be presented on Class Day to Tatsuo Arima '57, and Peter K. Gunness '57. The awards, silver cups, are named for Richard Glover Ames '34 and Henry Russell Ames '38, who drowned in 1935 off Newfoundland while attempting to rescue their father during a transatlantic sailing...
Its hero, James Dixon, is a barely competent provincial instructor in medieval history who has no desire to be a gentleman; he wants merely to be a safe and smug academic bureaucrat. His character has not been tempered on the playing fields of Eton, and he is as proud of...