Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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30 coup was "treasonous" and "unmasked the true character of the party."
The Danish newcomer is Niels Kehlet, 27. Though he is the shortest (5 ft. 7 in.) of the male soloists, he is a man to look up to. With a flex of his coiled-spring legs, he can probably leap higher than anyone else anywhere in the world. But he...
In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, Simenon accepts a handicap that only a master could overcome: The Little Saint is a book in which nothing happens. The hero is "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in...
The characters do not become repulsive--but the fault they share does. And Zweig radically alters one character, Volpone's toady Mosca, to further emphasize the central theme of money. As his name suggests, in Johnson's original he is a "fly"--engagingly ingenious and quickwitted, but as unscruplous as...
A lot was funny in Hamlin's Tartuffe, but not too much was comic. Many of the lines that got the biggest laughs were those who the actors stepped just slightly out of character where the polished diction and movement collapsed into purely American shock or embarassment. So the laughter...