Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1950 this good temper was a little harder to explain, for beyond simply counting noses, the Government was setting out on a curbstone character reading of the country. One citizen in five who had reached the age of 14 was being asked how much money he made. The 140...
A poets' poet, Stevens had been quietly building up his reputation since he won a $100 prize from Poetry magazine in 1914 for four of his earliest verses (Phases). Like London Publisher T. S. Eliot, he has never regarded poetry as a full-time job. To have daily contact...
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).
On the other hand, maybe the clubs just want to organize for the social contact function. If that is the case, they ought to drop their ostensible thought-provoking character, and join hands with that famous social contact group, the Carlton Club.
Despite its present "mixed" character, "the American economy will remain the most adaptable, the most progressive, and the most productive in the world," Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor claimed yesterday in an article in the New York Times.