Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Courtly, patrician Louis St. Laurent rode a campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the...
Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood.
The Devil's General (Gyula Trebitsch; Stebbins). "In a pinch," says the German proverb, "the devil eats flies." But how did he ever manage, in the puny form of Adolf Hitler, to gobble up all those meaty burghers of the German middle class? How could so many "good Germans...
The character of Harras (played with full vibrato by Actor Jürgens, a sort of John Wayne with Heidelberg trimmings) is a highly romantic one-rather like a combination of Siegfried and Graf Bobby*-and his fiery death is stirringly Wagnerian. But from U.S. moviegoers the hero will probably...
This prediction led Oppenheimer to state that man, in studying himself, will be forced to accept a "partial order," realizing that the very "character of the knower determines what, how, and how much he knows."