Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Greek comedy is by character frankly coarse ad obscene. Radcliffe Idlers' have emasculated the script of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata," but without complete revision of script or ineptness of cast, the play is bound to be entertaining. This production, even without a finished polish, is successful.
In direct contrast to these two stories, Illona Karmel's "The Bracelet" is almost self-consciously denotative. It is the story of a bracelet that symbolizes the fortunes of a Russian-Jewish family. Each possessor of the bracelet is deftly and clearly depicted in a series of brief character sketches...
One such conservative group is America's Future, Inc., whose purpose is "to educate the people of the United States ... to the history, character, importance and value of our constitutional republic and institutions ... (and) to foster well informed opinions (so) that our political institutions, individual liberties and system of free...
This and kindred myths (at their height in the 19305) have now begun to fray because they run counter to the American experience o-f the last nine years. Henry Steele Commager's book may help to finish the job, and to put the Civil War back where it...
FDR's most famous editorial campaign was directed at the condition of the Yard dormitories, not one of which "can make the least pretense of being fire-proof . . . What then are the facilities offered for escape? . . . The flimsy wooden staircases can certainly not be relied on for egress, and the...