Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Dunces like to consider themselves an influential phase of Dunster House activity, yet, short of stuffing the ballot box, it is doubtful if our sixteen harmonizers could "choose seven for House Committee" as Tuesdays CRIMSON announced. It is true that the Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House...
The last line of the above paragraph might seem to indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an...
Bogart sternly denied that he had ever hit a lady in his life, described himself as "a lovable character, about as vicious as Margaret O'Brien." When New York Post Home News's Columnist Earl Wilson asked him if he had been drunk, however, he replied moodily: "Isn...
To illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping...
The movie concentrates so relentlessly on Pinky's personal anguish that it achieves a haunting character portrait. Acting the role with an un-greasepainted face, Jeanne Grain seems like a morbid, almost marbleized Sleeping Beauty, bewitched by her conflict. Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan underlines the impression...