Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This is a picture without preaching, without answers, without hope. Struggling alone to find a way out off the past and what the past has made of him, character after character ends where he started. It may be that they are distorted and static, robots who can only late themselves...
The play is most compelling in its treatment of Willy Loman's personality. The significance of the salesman's death may be great, or it may be inconsequential; a long perspective is necessary to judge. But, in any case, it is Willy Loman who interests us, and in this character...
As an enthusiastic admirer of the Methuselah of literature, I wish to state that never before have I seen such a precise, artistic, literate, intelligent, penetrating, informative, wellrounded, readable, sympathetic yet critical summary of any man's life, character and achievements on two printed pages . . .
Nothing-a-Year. So he decided to revive that much-maligned character, the dollar-a-year man-withone difference: he would be paid, not a dollar a year, but nothing. As a Senator, heading his famed war investigating committee, Harry Truman in 1942 had declared forthrightly: "No man can honestly...
Afterwards, more than 12,000 people heard stern-faced Old Soldier George Marshall describe Erle as a "young man of great promise, a clean, fine young man of exceptional character." Marshall went on to read the crowd a lesson from Erle: