Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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So broods a character in André Malraux's Man's Fate, undoubtedly reflecting the author's own vision in the 1920s when he spent two years in Canton as propaganda commissar for the Kuomintang, which was then an alliance that included the Communists. Last week, for...
"DORIS?" says a character in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. "She's the one who's always reading War and Peace. That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading War and Peace." Whether or not Doris ever suffers through all 365...
On the other hand, a man is apt to know his nonreading habits only too well. In the eyes of the overworked businessman or scientist whose leisure-time intake during the past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group...
Freshly reminded of Picasso's theater period, the critics have hailed its significance. Says Jean Cassou, director of Paris' Museum of Modern Art: "Picasso's theatrical works occupy a great place in his career. His whole genius, his entire work, including his still lifes, have a theatrical...
Farquahr, however, made no pretense of "character development." The figure in his comedy are caricatures, and no audience can romanticize a caricature--they are human alienation effects. So Brecht can show us his Plumes and Melindas for scene after scene, but leave one free of emotional attachments to them. When...