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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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How a pain researcher views this pattern depends mainly on his specialty, Sternbach told a pain symposium last month at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. Each investigator, he said, is "locked in" to thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

A director like John Ford, if he thought this tedious two-hour tale worth the telling, could have done it in a tight ninety minutes. Leone spends most of his time focusing on the actors' eyes squinting tensely into the camera lens. The intent is operatic, but the effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tedium in the Tumbleweed | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

In the presence of this face, Edel's quasi-Freudian explanations seem a little glib, and perhaps a little irrelevant. The simpler, curiously old-fashioned dictum of Ezra Pound somehow fits better: more writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turn of the Screw | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

I am reluctant to oppose the Committee of Fifteen's findings on discipline, and do so only with the sense that what seems to me wrong in them derives not primarily from any thoughtless on the Committee's part, but from the character of our original instruction of them (as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Professor's View of Punishment | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

TIKE AND FIVE STORIES has been criticized for lacking variety, and because the heroes are all essentially the same character. Given the time of life Strong is plumbing, though, it is unlikely the stories could be anything other than solo pieces.

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Tike and Five Stories | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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