Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The discovery that his daughter has been seduced diverts him for a while from his idee fixe, and he rants and mourns like a character out of Dumas fils. There is some talk about his ordering the errant one out of his house, and then a while later he observes...
"This contract represents very substantial progress for General Motors workers and their families," Reuther said. "It is good for GM workers and it is good for the country because it is non-inflationary in character."
Where he does generalize about Harvard, Boroff has a tendency to be pleasingly vapid. For instance, "students and faculty are united on one article of faith: the greatness of the Harvard idea." Not too many people would quarrel with that, but then what is "the Harvard idea?" Commenting on a...
Me and the Colonel is an extremely successful movie version of S. N. Berman's Jacobowsky and the Colonel, which was itself an adaptation of an earlier play by the German writer, Franz Werfel. Despite the fact that it is essentially comic and optimistic, the main interest lies in the...
The fact that people who have a vivid memory of the horrors of World War II are able to laugh heartily and without uneasiness at this character is a curious phenomenon. If he were obviously a caracature, an unbelievable reductio ad absurdum of certain germanic traits, it would be easier...