Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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* The character of the two awards is very different. Kinasewich described the Marshall interview committees as looking for someone who would get the most out of a research library. The social side of a student's interests, he said, were less important than in the Rhodes.
Banned from France for his revolutionary activities last spring, Mandel, editor of the leftist weekly "La Gauche," said the French general strike in May was possible only because of the "mass character" of the preceeding student demonstrations. The workers reacted with what he described as "an element of competition," and...
This shrinking effect--the way the book diminishes in memory--is the fault of Wolfe's own style. Fun to read, it is still frenetic, hopped up with exclamations, interjections aplenty. It is a hey-look-no-hands way of writing. No character can come to life in this style...
...hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view after that. (As in his book for Fiddler, Stein...
Regrettably Zorba's music does not always reach the level of Prince's craftsmanship. John Kander and Fred Ebb, the composer and lyricist respectively, have still failed to produce the great score that their Flora the Red Menace and Cabaret hinted was on the way. While many of the numbers...