Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This nucleus cannot, however, keep any Shakespeare play on Broadway for long; the rest is a matter of showmanship. Among Shakespeare's works, Hamlet clearly has an edge because its hero's fascinating, elusive character interests many more people than Shakespeare does. But in general-as Shakespeare productions...
A leading fad in U. S. schools and colleges today are the so-called "standardized" tests. There are more than 4,000 of them. They purport to measure an individual's intelligence, knowledge, character, personality, radicalism, musical tastes, artistic ability, tea-table form, inhibitions, morale. Last week one Oscar...
"When little Pierpont came into the world [in 1837] there were a great many business troubles," writes Mr. Satterlee gravely. Not greatly troubled was the well-to-do Morgan family of Hartford, Conn., though little Pierpont's grandfather, red-nosed, craggy-faced Abolitionist Preacher John Pierpont of Boston, had...
The annual $300 award is given to the Senior (or Seniors) who best exemplifies the qualities of character and leadership of the late Richard G. Ames '34 and his brother Henry R. Ames '38, who were lost at sea in 1935. The Ames Memorial Fund was set up by the...
U. S. anti-fascist novels, written at 3,000 miles removed from fascist reality, are too often the sort which make a Führer out of every bully. James T. Farrell's Jew-hating young Brooklyn Irishman, a bellicose introvert who sells Father Moylan's Christian Justice...