Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Cambridge City Council yesterday passed a resolution in tribute to the memory of the late Jerome D. Greene '96. In a rising vote, the Council unanimously commended Greene as "a good friend whose outstanding character as Secretary to the University (Corporation) reflected high honor on that institution."
In Character? Booze never bothered Eric Portman, said Kim's understudy, Nancy Malone. "Like most British actors, he drinks during a performance. Sometimes he drank a little too much, but he was never falling down or out of control." Said Portman, who gives the leading man's lines...
The character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster...
The Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. The acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton is excellent.
Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden."