Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Finley, however, is not perfectly content. Within each of his two roles are tensions and ambivalences. And, the tendency over the years has been for the Master character to shove the Professor character off stage, to the regret of the latter. "I sometimes think I've scattered myself too...
Finley has created for his House an image which, like a thesis, is the length and shadow of temperament. Wrote e. e. cummings of John Finley, "he generates a particular precision of vitality which our fathers called 'character.'" Eliot House has a vision of itself as a good and distinctive...
He razzed the "fashionable" New York audiences who insist on "identifying" with every character, and "intellectualizing" about every play. "Entertainment is not a dirty word," he said. "The deeper relevance of any play should not intrude into the appreciation of the performance at the theatre. It should wake you up...
On the eve of World War II, a scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character...
Author MacDonald raises the take to $800,000 in untraceable cash, and broadens the cast to include finagling financiers, tough Texas lawyers, Cuban exiles, beach boys, con men and cops. He has also invented a demented new character who holds the shipwrecked girl prisoner, thereby prolonging the story and deepening...