Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he is expected to enter the intellectual and social life of the University, "personality and character" are stressed rather than academic record. Some athletic ability and debating talent are also helpful.
But the picture falls down in the intimate depiction of its commander's character. For all Gregory Peck's grizzle, you can't help realizing that somewhere below that clean-cut chin he has a heart of gold. It seems hard to believe that his men couldn't catch on...
Against him stood Hiss, handsome and confident-looking, vouched for by more than a score of character witnesses, including Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter and Reed (at the first trial; they did not reappear at the second). Many people agreed with Hiss, who had once said: "It is inconceivable that there...
Williams has given his poem a narrator-hero: "Dr. Paterson," a man who sees things just about the way Bill Williams does. In Book I he sketches the "elemental character" of the city and paints vignettes of early settlers. In Book II he walks through the park and counts lost...
But, to my mind, author Vincent Carroll's major achievement in this play is the character of Canon Skerritt. After a too leisurely opening scene, his entrance is a refreshing one; the play seems to change its caliber immediately. In him, the play wright's command of limpid, precise prose...