Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The reporting is purely external, being drawn mostly from Mencken's hundreds of bound volumes of press-clippings and his published writings. I, as one, would like to know why a man so intelligent and civilized as Mencken would aggressively support the Germans in the early part of both World...
A large body of the essays in this volume could be loosely called literary biography. These are brief and charming sketches, some of famous men, Conrad, Hardy, Oliver Goldsmith, and some of obscure figures, known only through a terse diary or a packet of family letters. In all of them...
A second group of essays deals with contemporary arts and letters--books, criticism, the cinema. The best, and best known is "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown," written in 1924, a spirited and delightful defense of the new literature of Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence against the outmoded conventions of...
One of the important attributes of a true gentleman is the ability to look neat without being stuffy, inconspicuous without being drab, and distinctive without being gaudy. It is the art of being an individual without being a character.
Riding High. Bing Crosby and a full stable of character actors, in Frank Capra's craftily contrived comedy about a race horse (TIME, May 1).