Search Details

Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Test of Character. In Madison, Wis., the state bureau of personnel advertised for an inspector for the beverage and cigarette division of the state tax department: "Young man with ability to drink moderately on the job when the occasion demands."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

In print, the character is so frostily repellent that most grand Shakespeareans have agreed with the Romans, and exiled him. But it was in a 1938 Old Vic production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: First Knight | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

The character named Lorraine Sheldon swirled onstage in the second act of The Man Who Came to Dinner, gaudy in mink, black satin, and black mesh stockings. "Sherry, my sweet," cooed Lorraine to the bewhiskered leading man. "Oh, darling! Look at that poor, sweet, tortured face! Let me kiss it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRAW-HAT CIRCUIT: The Impersonator | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Testimony, Not Test. The statement (see box) will be a testimony, not a test, of faith. Chiefly responsible for its text: Commission Chairman Dr. Elmer J. F. Arndt, professor of historical theology and Christian ethics at E. & R. Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo. Said Arndt: "We wanted a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Uniting Church | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

As it happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adrift in a Laundromat | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next