Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protagonist in Washington's latest fracas is tough, shrewd Ferdinand Eberstadt, artillery captain in World War I, outstanding independent investment banker of the '305, and currently charged with WPB's vital materials division. The other is Charles E. Wilson, whom Donald Nelson brought to Washington to take charge of WPB's production division...
...sentence was written by a Russian whom the British like and can understand, Maxim Litvinoff. As Foreign Commissar before the war, he was a protagonist of collective security-simultaneous moves to keep the peace. Now, as unofficial liaison man, he pleaded for simultaneous moves...
Several afternoons a week, a carefully selected group of patients meets in the theater. Dr. Moreno picks one protagonist, who has been prepared by long, intimate conferences, and they sit together on the steps of the stage, planning a rough outline of the scene they will reenact. Other actors in the drama are also picked by the doctor-usually they are patients too, but sometimes a part is taken by a specially trained professional actress. The patient may act himself, his mother, his wife, or any role he chooses. The actors all move freely about the stage, sometimes merely chatting...
World War II's biggest front, its oldest battle, its hugest protagonist are unknowns. Since May 8 the Japanese have been pushing against the Northern China Front, in an important feeler operation involving about six Japanese divisions. To an unknowing world it is a vast battle in the dark and yet few zones of operation are more important to the London-Washington Axis...
...sort of slavery." Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...