Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gleb Nerzhin, in many ways a stand-in for Solzhenitsyn himself, makes an opposite choice to Rubin's. By refusing to work on a new bugging device, he condemns himself to Siberia. He is the character most conscious of the paradox that pervades the novel: that in Stalin's Russia...
If the seminars really are changing the character of the houses, it is all for the best, Chalmers argues. He says that A. Lawrence Lowell's conception of the houses as purely social rather than academic units is as anachronistic as the idea that house libraries should be gentlemen's...
In the center of it all is an aimiable British comedian, Frankie Howerd, who plays a character named John Emery Rockefeller--conveniently giving the authors the opportunity to include a raft of Rockefeller jokes. (The play's being retitled Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could...
There is nothing new or astonishing about Tiger. There is no particularly ingenious heist, no character out of Krafft-Ebing, no bloodshed or lubricity. The things that happen have happened in many another movie. It is the people they happen to that lift the film up and hold it there...
Taking on an Allen Drury political melodrama is like harpooning a blimp at three feet. It is not only impossible to miss, but every thrust is likely to be fatal. To begin with, there is the dreary genre itself-a peek-into-the-future theme that titillates with dark allusions...