Search Details

Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

In addition, they must be able to read, write, and speak the language of the country in which they plan to study, as well as be able to produce proof of American citizenship. They must also have good academic records, good moral character and adaptability, and good health.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1950-51 Foreign Fellowships Available for Grad Students | 2/9/1950 | See Source »

In drawing room comedies, there is always one minor character who is extremely annoying. Usually it is and American, who is supplied with a pile of Yankee idiom and a vicious accent and who distributes these to the audience with magnanimity. But "Yes M'Lord" 's American is a girl...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/9/1950 | See Source »

The Third Man (Sir Alexander Korda; David O. Selznick) is already a smash hit in Britain, where most critics hailed it as the best movie of 1949. U.S. moviegoers are likely to find it one of the best of 1950. Like The Fallen Idol, by the same brilliant British team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

The cast tries hard for plausibility and Director Robert (The Killers') Siodmak builds tension in some of the courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Author Gary has given them warning. In Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the first novel of his trilogy, he not only created a fresh and startling heroine in the person of lusty, busty Sara Monday but also planned her amoral meanderings so dexterously that no one could ever guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Snuffling | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

First | Previous | 494 | 495 | 496 | 497 | 498 | 499 | 500 | 501 | 502 | 503 | 504 | 505 | 506 | 507 | 508 | Next | Last