Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sculptor David McFall's statue of Winston Churchill [Dec. 15] is an impressive synthesis of the comic strip character, Alley Oop, and Churchill.
But such problems, the kind that reduced every leader of the Fourth Republic to fatalistic acceptance of eventual defeat, provide a kind of elation to a man of De Gaulle's temperament. "France," he wrote in his memoirs, "is not really herself unless in the front rank. Only vast enterprises...
He returned to Paris in 1944, the idol of France and commander of 500,000 armed men. Only his own character stood between De Gaulle and a dictator's power. But as France's first postwar President, he had a precise conception of his mission: to restore republican order and...
His picture is based on The Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful...
One of the heavy toll charges Alexander Graham Bell levied for his invention was a minor art form: good letter writers have no telephone. Nor should they have much modesty. Belloc had neither. Instead he had wit and character. A grumpy, opinionated man ("I want to tell the new Pope...