Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan. At 44, comely Sarah will be one of the oldest of 32 London Peters (among them: Elsa Lanchester, Edna Best) to flit across the Darling's nursery, nonetheless seemed ready to navigate her nearly 600 yds. of flying weekly in the sentimental old wheeze. Sure to be on hand for the opening: her parents. Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, who booked eight seats...
...other than Pasternak's Communist critics, have noted his unfeigned and unwavering sympathies for the educated middle class in which he was reared. In this section, Pasternak takes pains to make his protagonist's loyalties unmistakable. The partisan commander is a cocaine-sniffing hophead whom Dr. Zhivago loathes, as much for his boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were...
...little adman who wants to become a big adman. He is the main character of A Twist of Lemon (Doubleday; $3.95), a Madison Avenue novel by Adman (Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc.) Edward Stephens, who writes in a style that is alternately arch and fallen arch. But Author Stephens' protagonist would instantly be on knife-in-the-back, wife-in-the sack terms with the huckster-heroes of half a dozen other new novels. The salient feature of this season's supply of advertising and public-relations fiction, all written more or less from the inside, is that people...
...these two devices seems to indicate that the writer did not have the skill or the patience to develop his protagonist without artificially bisecting him into two idea-vehicles. Bogard loses depth and reality as a college student and becomes a clumsy allegorical figure in a twentieth-century morality play...
...Named for the protagonist of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Humphrey Chimpden Ear-wicker, who is a fiction favorite of the owner of the gallery, Nat Halper...