Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The characters no longer walk in mincing steps, or tuck their hands in their sleeves, movements characteristic of China rather than Japan. The fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini...
Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head...
The play uses a classic stage form, the brittle conversation piece. In terms of smart brushes and insulting banter, this has its good points; but seldom were a classic action and a classic method so mismated. 'Stage struggles over a will make for melodrama or serious drama, farce or...
Manless, always hoping that her husband will come back, Felicia plunges into plantation work and gradually she gives up all pretense at social life. When her son is killed by the arrow of a savage tribesman, nothing is left for Felicia but the daily round, the deepening identification with the...
Jugs of Martinis. "Our candle does more than burn at both ends," says a Millay-minded character in Young Mr. Keeje. "We toss the whole thing into the fire!" Young Jimmy Keefe, the novel's hero, resembles less a blazing youth than a defective flue. His ego is choked...