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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it was written to get away from playwriting. Act One (Random House; $5) in a sense is still a play. It is a collection of fascinating characters whom the author parades before the footlights of his wit and warmth. There is first of all the character who dominated Moss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Sound of Trumpets | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Local governments are not so vexed this year about an old debate: federal aid for school construction. Eighty percent of school bonds requested this year were voted in, compared to 73% last year. But the quality of a school depends most upon the quality of its teachers, and such is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Inspector General | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

All the Gifted. What first fascinated Conant about the public school was its Jeffersonian character-the mixing of children from all social levels. At casteconscious Harvard, President Conant's great theme was the American tradition of respecting any man good at his trade. "Each honest calling, each walk of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Inspector General | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Its central character, a little girl named Rick, leads much the same kind of life that Author Dermout herself knew in the

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Remember, I Remember | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

The scene is a sun-drenched Aegean island. The central character is a blonde, green-eyed girl, found as a baby by a drink-fuddled Greek fisherman and grown into a woman who has the local boys dreaming. By most fictional standards, this should be the cutoff point, the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Seas of Love | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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