Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A rich comedy derives from the series of paradoxes and moral upheavals in the play. It is an unstrained humor which flows naturally from character and situation, and at times it edges near to tragedy.
...film's failure stems mainly from a futile attempt to blend Actor Webb's amusingly smug, know-it-all characterization of Mr. Belvedere into a story intended to stir up some emotional warmth. The result is seldom comic and never moving; it leaves Webb without much material worthy of a Belvedere and the movie's would-be warmth without the kind of character that might ignite...
What keeps the whole collection from descending to the merely pathological is an undercurrent of compassion and a ruthless economy of phrase that never slashes when it can slice and never slices when it can probe. None of the stories has a surplus word or a spare character. In every...
The Outlander, by Germaine Guevremont. What happens when a careless, high-spirited wanderer settles down in a tiny, pious farm hamlet in Quebec. Good regional writing with nature as a major character (TIME, March 13).
Protest against the qualities of Mr. Cunningham is obviously fruitless. Yet expression of indignation that a paper which purports to be troubled by the prevalent crime of character assassination sees fit to publish such obscenities as Mr. Cunningham's may not be entirely futile. A community's standard of decency...