Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His failure as an artist is one of these factors: he had been condemned to dreary poverty and drudging jobs for many years. His eventual "success" comes only when he sells his play--and himself--to a greasy promoter who cuts out all the idealism and long speeches (two constituents...
Adams saw two major obstacles to a College course in Christian culture. First, he doubted whether a unitary Christian heritage exists, since the dialogue of opposing viewpoints tends to give any heritage a complex character.
In the political and social realms, man was reduced to a "working power," and rediscovered as the self in "anxiety, guilt, and despair," Tillich said. One outgrowth of this rediscovery was expressionist art, which "showed the world in its demonic character."
The cast is headed by Eric Martin as Jack Point, and he is superb. With his pale, drawn, expressive face he makes a sad jester, but a funny one, so that his transition from comedy to pathos occasions no jolt, because both elements are in the character from the beginning...
In a future "where people are even more different from one another than they are now," Riesman concluded, "national character may become an even more tenuous concept than at present."