Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The best of the low comic performances is also the most delicate: John Neville's pathetic, feeble-minded, utterly out-of-it Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Dudley Jones plays Feste as a sad, second-rate jester who has a hard time making a living, and his fine performance helps to keep...
The skinny, green-eyed guy with the hurt, hesitant frown looked like a loser -the kind of character who can never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week...
A major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use...
Yet Boris Morros had an advantage in Soviet eyes: his family was still in Russia. Morros would have liked to spring his father from the "frozen prison" of the Soviet Union, but as it was, he could not even get food packages through to him. All this changed one day...
Dorothy Baker, whose Young Man with a Horn (TIME, June 6, 1938) looked steadily at a great jazzman, and Edward Hoagland, who lighted up the life of the circus in Cat Man (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). They too were first novels, and they too dealt with character in unfamiliar surroundings...