Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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12 o'clock: Sociologist and Henry Ford Professor David Riesman will dissect character and social structure in America in his course Social Sciences 136. Better get to Sanders early; the class is limited to 200 applying members
Zhivago himself is a weak man, a Russian Hamlet to whom reality itself is the greatest antagonist. (The figure of Hamlet dominates Zhivago's conception of himself, culminating in the most notable of his poems collected at the end of the book.) The collection of pygmies in the Soviet Writers...
...constantly depend upon random statements by one character judging another for either of them to be illuminated. We are told that Lara (for Zhivago, the life-force) symbolizes the oppression of the 19th century and the hope of the 20th; but someone has to say it, for in the characterization of her words and deeds there is no indication of such a symbolic meaning...
The characters move along in a sweeping dream. They meet and react; they pass through each other's lives but for consistency of purpose and character, they might as well be unamed. The texture of the book itself is often dream-like. There are no expanations for remarkable conincidences. Useless...
The football team caused some hopes to rise with a win over Lehigh, and then followed that with a triumph over hapless Columbia. The U.S. failed in 7David Riesman came to Harvard as first Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Riesman is now selecting a heterogeneous elite for his course on...