Word: characterization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What would he the U. S. stand on Poland, Czechoslovakia, on a possible French partition of Germany! "It is just this maddeningly insoluble character of these problems that convinces cynics that peace treaties mark not so much the end of one war as the vestibule to the next."
"The approach has been experimental in that the sets and music form the true theme of the play. The main story serves only as a backbone on which to hang short scenes expressing the vast and varied character of the people forming a great metropolis," Freedley said.
President Eliot continued this trend when he made specialization the keynote of Harvard teaching. In remedying the pitifully inadequate professional training offered by the graduate schools, he further emphasized the purely departmental character of the Divinity School. Taking as his motto "Divide and conquer", he succeeded in breaking down the...
A trained anatomist, Eakins painted figures from the skeleton out, tried to be just as searching in his portrayal of character. One of his few sitters who liked himself as Eakins saw him was Walt Whitman. "Eakins' picture grows on you," said sturdy Walt. "He is not a painter...
Certainly moppets who can take A. A. Milne will take Possum and like him, for, e.g., the disreputable cat character whose saga begins: