Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It's a long way from the neighborhood bar in which that unforgettable movie character, Marty, spent aimless evenings with his cronies ("So whaddayawanna do tonight?") to the London pub where T. S. Eliot's Wastelanders waited for the relentless closing hour ("Hurry up, please, it's...
Such charges miss the mark by miles, entailing basic mistakes about Milton Eisenhower as a man and about his relationship with Ike. Shy, extremely sensitive to criticism, Milton is no man to wear his private character on his public sleeve. The man behind the maroon cover of Who's...
His defection dealt a blow to East Germany's intellectual pretensions, but it was not unique. He was but one of 5,000 refugees who crossed into West Berlin last week, in a steady flow that has ceased to be news. The special character of the current exodus is...
By such concentration, Rosy has built up a collection of some 250,000 pictures, covering every major racing event since Sir Thomas Lipton went to the U.S. from England in 1899 for the first of five unsuccessful tries at the America's Cup. Rosy's black-and-white...
Silence in the Street. Some critics will reach for their nearest Dostoevsky, but Nabokov himself disdains comparison with the other Russian, whom he regards as a clumsy and vulgar writer. Yet, the suppressed criminal episode in Dostoevsky's' The Possessed invites analogy with Lolita. Stavrogin, Dostoevsky's...