Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost Innocence. Recollections of Leavitt & Peirce not only are effusive ("At least one tiny island on a fluxing planet has remained the way one likes to remember it"), but like smoke, they drift far from the source. Novelist Walter D. Edmonds ('26) begins with the admission that he broke...
The Light in the Forest (Buena Vista) is a Walt Disney film about Indians. Delving no deeper than a cat lapping milk from a saucer, Disney has churned out yet another strong-legged, soft-headed pioneer epic, in which each character, action and motive is painted in shrieking monotone. Taken...
The casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as...
Dr. Seymour does not define the posture that the public should assume before doctors of philosophy, but implies that it should be at least as deferential as the one employed before doctors of medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition...
At one point, Sally Jay is told off by a buddy: "Take it easy, Zelda. Scotty's been dead for years." Scotty has, and Author Dundy is no reincarnation of the razzle-dazzled Fitzgerald. But her portrait of the Left Bank expatriates, who raise a decorous kind of hell...