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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sir: Those cartoonists' smear tactics on Nixon are as effective as the Commies' best methods of character assassination. J. H. KURZ San Antonio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR: THE advent of "Modern Republicanism" has turned the G.O.P. into a mugwump party without any powerful or appealing national character. By its copy-cat tactics of merely adopting and adapting Democratic principles and programs, it has offered the voters no real opportunity for the kind of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

There are a great many melodramatically effective scenes in this tale about a blind young man, Donato, who falls desperately in love with a married woman and becomes entangled in another form of blindness-jealousy. But the impact is marred by banalities of speech ("You know we can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind, Burning & Bland | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

The speaker is referring to the advertising business and is himself one of Manhattan's peons of praise-a little adman who wants to become a big adman. He is the main character of A Twist of Lemon (Doubleday; $3.95), a Madison Avenue novel by Adman (Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drumbeatniks | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Addicts of Churchilliana will read this valet's valedictory for bits of backstage gossip like this, yet the book is more than just another footnote to the Churchill legend. It stands in its own right as a comedy of character. On foreign travel Norman hardly ever went to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beloved Guv'nor | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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