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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is my problem. Harvard's basketball players are being exposed to an excellent human being, a nice man. What the Director of Athletics must decide is whether it would be worth risking hiring a coach with some new ideas and a more aggressive recruiting style who has a less...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Sports of the Crime | 2/20/1968 | See Source »

The play is immensely theatrical, sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Henry IV | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

The hero was a bent-nosed ex-pug who seemed too ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Infuriating Magician | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

In his letters to Cicero, Julius Caesar employed a cipher in which each character was replaced by one standing three places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: IURP WKH WURYH* | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Nothing in the versatile Vidal's past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge. Vidal and his publisher, insisting that the sexual problems of the title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra the Messiah | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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