Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston Churchill's 80th birthday celebration and the critical storm over Graham Sutherland's Churchill portrait were obviously stories to be reported. Honor Balfour, TIME'S parliamentary specialist, got the assignment. Reporters drew lots for passes to the ceremony in crowded Westminster Hall, and Correspondent Balfour was lucky enough to get one. Nearly everyone got a glimpse of the Sutherland portrait in the hall, but few had a close view. Reporter Balfour previously had arranged for a private viewing through the good offices of her friend Mrs. Sutherland, the artist's wife. All of which contributed...
...Wonderful? Alternately solemn and impish, Churchill commented ambiguously ("A most remarkable piece of modern art") on the portrait of himself painted by Graham Sutherland (see ART). He was loftily deprecatory of his wartime role. "It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar." He concluded gravely: "I am now nearing the end of my journey. I hope I still have some services to render." When he sat down, his wife leaned across to pat his hand affectionately. Then...
...portrait, done by Graham Sutherland, one of Britain's top painters, was indeed candid. Ordinary Britons, seeing in black-and-white press photographs a gross, jut-jawed Churchill, shorn of his feet and plainly showing the tracery of age, bombarded their newspapers with outraged protests. But the critics, after a leisurely look, generally approved of its color harmonies: the pinkish paleness of face and hands, the rich black of the clothes, and the strangely appropriate tarnished golden background. Decreed the Times: "A powerful, penetrating image...
...former Senator from North Carolina, Frank P. Graham was the middle-man in viewpoint, suggesting only review of the charter...
...Graham compromised by agreeing both with Gross, that to "accentuate differences would be unwise" and with Cousins, that all people have a "desire for survival on this planet...