Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the men were not in uniform: they were in the cap & gown of high-school graduation; they were out hunting with leather jacket and a bird dog at their feet; or they sat stiffly with hair slicked back and smile a little strained, for a portrait that was to be a Christmas present for a family or sweetheart. They were boys from the best families and boys from across the railroad tracks. Now they were dead, somewhere far away, or captured, or-worst of all-"missing." In some towns nearly everyone had lost a relative or a friend...
Like some of the early Soviet films, Native Land is charged with power by its inline, unswerving theme. It opens softly with a camera portrait of the U.S. which free men have built by virtue of the Bill of Rights, veers suddenly into an outrageous violation of those rights: the murder of a forthright farmer (at Custer, Mich., in 1934) for presuming to speak his mind at a grange meeting...
CONGRATULATIONS ON MAY 18 COVER MAGNIFICENT PORTRAIT OF COMMANDER NIMITZ...
...Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man examines the callow liberalism and the not-so-united-frontage of the '30s in the presumably hard, gemlike flame of the heroine's radicalism (Trotskyish) and personal integrity (self-righteous). There are some eloquent paragraphs on The Old Man, as Trotsky's disciples used to call him; some sore and salutary ones on the queasy performance of the liberal weeklies during the Moscow Trials; some sour clinical notes on the habits of college-bred intellectuals...
Luminosity, precision, an illusion of floating through flawless air are effects she strives for and sometimes gets in the new medium. Her Naval Academy murals are excellent. A portrait of Mrs. Mullen's son on a tricycle, on view in the window of Chicago's Findlay Galleries, once slowed up traffic considerably on Michigan Avenue. There have been other unreckoned results...