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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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O'Neill's hero is Con Melody, an Irish officer of peasant birth who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and is now an impoverished innkeeper and his own taproom's steadiest customer. Under the influence of booze and Byronism, he lives inside a gilded dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Author Beckett (Waiting For Godot) himself never answers these questions about his central character. His identity and his past remain obscure-beyond the fact that Mahood's entire family was killed off by sausage poisoning. But it does not take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beware the Blob | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Deeply religious, Presbyterian Haig knew that God was on his side, but this did not keep him from setting great military store by fortunetellers. Airplanes, tanks and even machine guns struck him as frivolous inventions that no solid warrior need take seriously. Early in 1916 he had shown the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood & Mud | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

77 Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Girl on the Run, a new detective series, has a main character no more novel than an ex-OSS officer. But with Marion (See Here Private . . .) Hargrove to write the script, the show has its moments.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

The "non-joiners" live in large dormitories and are required to take meals at The University Center. Living in the dormitories is not too communal, and the university has broken the dormitories into more intimate entry sub-divisions. To give dormitory groups more character and identity, they might consider a...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

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