Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limned" for the first time. Giving in. Washington said: "Very well, Madam, but only if you and your children have your likenesses taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become part of the national heritage...
...Congratulations on your fine color reproduction of Benjamin West's portrait of Guy Johnson. On what authority does TIME label the Indian in the background Joseph Brant? There is no resemblance between this and the portrait of Brant by Romney, painted in the same year, or those by Gilbert Stuart, painted later. It is more likely that the Indian is merely a symbol of Guy Johnson's office, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in succession to his uncle and father-in-law, Sir William Johnson...
...TIME'S authority is the National Gallery, whose experts agree that West's Indian, while not looking like other portraits of him, is indeed Joseph Brant. However, it is logical, they say, that West idealized him in his portrait as a symbol of his race. For West's and Stuart's portraits, see cuts...
...built 155 plants costing $540 million in 23 nations (including the U.S. and U.S.S.R.) that turn out 7,000,000 tons of nitrogen annually, 13% of the world's total. Currently under contract: another 43 chemical plants for companies in twelve foreign lands, a deal with the Indian government to build hydroelectric works...
...Particularly in the Díaz version, the story has the nature of a dream landscape described by someone who had all his senses about him. Its quality is indicated in passages as stern and unsentimental as a death sentence: "We dressed our wounds with grease of a fat Indian we had killed, for we had no oil, and had a good supper on some of the dogs they breed to eat. The houses were deserted and the food had been carried off ... but during the night [the dogs] returned to their houses and we snatched them with relish...