Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most interesting and significant of the three parts of the volume is the second, for it contains observations on French politics which deviate sharply from the accepted portrait. France, according to Professor Guerard, never was a democracy, but rather a dictatorship of the middle class. It has always been governed by a bureaucracy which since Napoleon has clung leek-like to the tenets of bourgeois liberalism. The author favors a cold-blooded recognition of the fact that Parliamentarianism is not a French idea, and that government by a score of parties without a strong executive is impossible. These observations...
...results, four works for symphony orchestra, were complete this week: Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, a mixture of simplicity, tenderness and nobility; Kern's Portrait for Orchestra (Mark Twain), stringing out typically Kern melodies, portraying Mark Twain's humor in an impudent polka, his "gorgeous pilot house" in a broad andante cantabile; Thomson's brassy Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes and Canons for Dorothy Thompson...
...message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing musical portraits, sketching out his music (as a painter would) while the subject poses...
...same prank which replaced Lowell's picture with a Goya portrait of a woman in a Victory suit, the Bellboys' exhibit case was filled with open books bearing such titles as "The Bedroom Companion, or a Cold Night's Entertainment" and "The Freshman...
Last year's parody was on "Time" magazine featuring a portrait of President Conant on the cover as the "Man of the Year." Also included was a map showing Memorial Hall as the bulls-eye of Hitler's bombing range, with the caption "given by Harvard University...