Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In your Jan. 20 issue, a University of Buffalo physics professor tells a sad story of approximately 60% student failure in the physics courses, and blames it on "permitting woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our school system." The answer may...
...manner of speech. In Bellamy's coping with stretchers, wheelchairs, crutches and braces, in his making himself learn to crawl, in his making something heroic of what is humiliating, there is no trace of tear-jerking vaudevillism or performing virtuosity; there is always a sense of characterization and of character. It is a notable performance, culminating in the advance on crutches to the Convention rostrum-the re-entry into public life-with which Sunrise at Campobello ends...
Racing Luck. It is probably part of Willie Hartack's racing luck that he came up when he did. It is certainly part of Willie's racing character that he grew up as he did?under the heavy hand of a hard-working coal-mining father.
In unfolding this grim tale, Novelist Bankowsky is thoroughly convincing as he enters successively the minds of a tormented religious fanatic, a furtive, greedy storekeeper, a mentally retarded girl. In each character's rambling recall, his own weaknesses are laid bare and another's motivation is made clearer...
The setting of this latest, bestseller-bound historical novel by Elizabeth Goudge (rhymes with Scrooge) is 17th century England. King Charles I has put John Hampden in prison for refusing a Forced Loan, thus setting many a British taxpayer ablaze with indignation. Now, battle is joined-King v. Parliament. And...