Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But Ulster is not about to forget the name. The Northern Ireland government provided Cadillacs for any MelIons that needed transportation, even furnished an athletic subofficial as a partner for a Mellon who got a sudden impulse for a spot of tennis. After giving the assembled Mellons a ceremonial dinner...
Died. Captain W. E. Johns, 75, the portly English author who created Biggies, a World War I flying ace whose daredevil exploits and incorruptible character thrilled a worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel...
Manhattan's Gerhardt Liebmann, 39, recently exhibited a series of canvases that show nothing but bricks, forming endless cells or piled in heaps that stretch away to infinity. Their dreamlike, surreal character is conveyed by Liebmann's adroit deviations from strict perspective. The bricks at the upper edges...
None of this makes Maitland either admirable or appealing. The fascination of his character rests in the fact that Osborne has made him incontestably and hypnotically real and the symbol and substance of buffeted humanity in the complex 20th century. His fears are shocks of recognition for the audience. Where...
Triple Ones. The main character-in fact the only major character-is a rootless, helpless, 56-year-old accountant named J. Henry Waugh. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball...