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...liberty, which in itself amounted to a convention, was to leave a picture or two in each tomb unfinished. Another was to depict wildlife just as it looks. Third, and most important, there was an occasional flicker of human interest. A farm boy giving up his donkey to the tax collector might be shown pouting; a queen playing chess might assume a mysterious smile; a bureaucrat might be counting on his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SCRIBES OF OUTLINES | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...contrast to Edward's revelation, Miss Bronte chose to unravel Jane's character step by step, following her growth from a mistreated Chile to governess of Thornfield. Jane Eyre's early years provide the film with its best opportunity to depict the author's social philosophy, and the scenes of the orphanage contain both excellent photography and acting. Joan Fountain plays the mature Jane Eyre with all the simplicity and firm sense of right and wrong that Miss Bronte intended...

Author: By Drnnis E. Brown, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/9/1954 | See Source »

Last week, at the still unfinished "House of the Worker" on the village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Worker | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much the same reasons. He tried to depict life accurately, but, in Wilde's words: "His style would be quite sufficient of itself to keep life at a respectful distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wounded Egoist | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...India, where kissing in public is taboo, the best one can do is depict a couple exchanging moonstruck gazes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hucksters Abroad | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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