Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In face of the masters' determination to give the cross-section plan a long trial period, University Hall must make the plan a reality. Under present conditions a general exodus of certain groups occurs at the end of sophomore year and deprives the houses of their truly representative character. The...
While most novelists attempt to develop character, few have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily...
A radically different dance took root first in Germany shortly before the War when Rudolf von Laban propounded his theory that the important thing was free, inspired movement regardless of its form, that music was unnecessary, at best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the...
Busy is the Federal Trade Commission in detecting unfair and monopolistic practices in U. S. industry. Last week it cracked down on American Character Doll Co. of Manhattan. Advertisements had pictured a waterproof doll, called "Sally Jane," immersed in a jar of water without any ill result. An unnamed, ordinary...
"Inspiration," he asserted, "Is not a method of creating a character, situation or place which is entirely hypothetical; it is rather an imaginative seizure in which the mind of the poet extends, arranges, or blends the information which he has obtained from his actual contact with the world. It is...