Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, June 30, says that Buck Rogers was "created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon -2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be...
"Vanity, Obstinacy, Suspicion." The contradictions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's primitive yet complex character have made him hard for the West to appraise and even harder to deal with. In the beginning, Westerners saw much to admire in this handsome, dedicated young soldier who drove out the gross and...
To get them, Kerr must raid the source of supply-the faculties at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, et al., with promises of blue skies, expansion-pushed advancement and high salaries ($12,900 top). A less obvious necessity: by choice, of site, of faculty minds and of educational specialty, each uncreated...
The central character, played by John Colicos, is King Leontes, who unjustly believes himself cuckolded and proceeds to wreak his jealousy on everyone around, even defying the oracle of Delphi. Of Shakespeare's three great studies of jealousy--Leontes, Othello, and Ford--this is the most realistic. Leontes is a...
This odd narrative begins with a conversation between the Novelist-Hero Durtal and a learned physician. Des Hermies. The friends go to the tower cell of a saintly but simple character - the bellringer of Saint-Sulpice Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and...