Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The comparison is fair, if not perfectly apt. Britain has lost an empire and lightened a pound. In the process, it has also recovered a lightness of heart lost during the weighty centuries of world leadership. Much of the world still thinks of Britain as the land of Victorianism, but...
The most notorious part of segregated justice is the allwhite jury system. Since 1875 it has been a federal crime, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, for a jury commissioner to exclude Negroes systematically from venires in either federal or state courts. Yet, not once in this...
As for the lady psychiatrist, Capote warmed up to the accusation that bothered him most. "The manner in which Tynan introduces this character," he wrote, "is McCarthy technique at its serpentine suavest. He means to use her the same way a ventriloquist uses a dummy. Tynan is a bully; and...
Proust might have objected that he was real, while Marcel was in the book. What sets Berryman off from Henry is not the simple ontological difference between a character and a person, but the anguish and brilliance of Berryman's effort to make the distinction between the two of them...
Critics of an alternative service proposal refuse to challenge the obvious advantages of the revision, preferring to base their opposition on the grounds that the move would damage the Peace Corps itself. They argue that the effectiveness of the Peace Corps, as a voluntary organization, depends on maintaining its volunteer...