Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I applaud David O. Merrick's stand on critics [March 25]. For years I have fought a one-man battle against these freeloading character assassins, though they have generally been good to me. It has always been a mystery to me why of all man's endeavors...
The Busy Future. The men who will swell Labor's back benches are markedly different from the hot-eyed Socialists who stormed to Parliament in the 1945 election and opened the first session with a rousing chorus of The Red Flag. The new M.P.s are young (average age: 36...
Practical Atheists. Plenty of clergymen, nonetheless, have qualms about the quality and character of contemporary belief. Lutheran Church Historian Martin Marty argues that all too many pews are filled on Sunday with practical atheists?disguised nonbelievers who behave during the rest of the week as if God did not exist...
But perseverance can pay. From The Polite Americans' morass, the patient reader can pick out a few dry footpaths to a reasonable comprehension of the country's character. It would have been nice, though, and this would certainly have been a better book, if the author had required...
The irony is Brechtian, without political reference; Grass is more concerned with moral character than social institutions. At one extreme his irony is angry, grotesque, a mingling of Bosch and bosh-as when he writes of a museum where: