Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product...
Senators considered themselves remote from popular passions and found no embarrassment in having Aaron Burr preside over them after his murderous duel with Alexander Hamilton. They felt responsible only to themselves and their own sense of grandeur-and that sense, taken seriously, may force a certain largeness of spirit on...
Since then, that commitment has grown to 215,000 U.S. fighting men, and the character of the struggle for South Viet Nam has vastly changed. Beginning with small, tentative "search-and-destroy" missions last spring, the U.S. moved out to hit the enemy where he lives, by last October was...
Veteran Soviet Character Actor Evgeny Samoilov, 53, certainly seemed out of character that night in Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater. A few days later, readers of the Evening Moscow knew why. "Dear Comrade Editor," Samoilov wrote remorsefully. "I was not sober for the evening performance. My delinquency defames the title...
One senses that Pasternak had something else in mind and screen writer Robert Bolt also. Presumably we are supposed to identify with Zhivago, whose individualism is being cramped by the system. But it's not easy to identify with a character who does nothing but write poems we never see...