Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the hearing-which ended with Judge Brominski reserving a decision -Dinis continued to defend himself. He questioned Dr. Mills' character and honesty, claiming "he's shirked his responsibility and tried to push it off onto us." Replying to the argument that he is acting out of personal...
House Speaker John McCormack is known for his almost puritanical probity. He lives simply, drives a 14-year-old car, has amassed few worldly goods. Thus he sounds in character when he professes ignorance about the influence peddling that has emanated from his Capitol Hill office for years. What plagues...
In her memoirs, Peggy Guggenheim describes a character she calls "Oblomov," which is her name for the young Samuel Beckett of the 1930s. The name was apt. Oblomov is the hero of a 19th century Russian novel by Goncharov, and he is famed for his inability to get out of...
6. The Program for Fellows is similar in character and purpose to those of the Nieman Foundation and the Kennedy School and to some advanced programs in the professional schools. Its purpose is to enable officials and others engaged in public life from many countries to spend an academic year...
In the various versions of one portrait. Rembrandt explored the complexity of his character. He drew his friends: a lawyer, a merchant and Clement de Jonghe, a print seller from Amsterdam. All editions of the portrait of de Jonghe have the same skeletal composition. His strong body is buttoned into...