Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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And it was people--a strange breed of people--who made the New Deal a phase with vast and conflicting connotations in the mind and history of America. On the Right there were people like Richard Whitney of the Stock Exchange, more recently of Sing Sing; like Lewis Douglas, in...
Obviously this is a situation for Boris Karloff; perhaps, looked at differently, one for the Marx Brothers. It serves Thomas' purposes because of what has been made of the character of the doctor who receives the bodies: a man of great stature, at once a cold misanthrope and a burning...
Nevertheless, the character is enough of a success to prove that great men can suffer with greater subtlety and complexity, and no less intensity, than the clods out of which modern plays are frequently heaped up. Thomas' words sometimes cast a glow, a light never seen on land or sea...
Since people presumably enjoy reading about themselves, this strongly appealing book should be enjoyed by legions of women who will see themselves (or at least their neighbors) in its heroine's everyday crises and commonplaces, stupidities and minor conquests, emotions half understood and alternatives wholly missed. Unlike choleric, Mom...
It would probably be disastrous if the romantic parts were not played conventionally; for the most part, the only sensible thing to do with love poetry, especially when the playwright has not used it to individualize the character who speaks it, is to say it as clearly and prettily as...