Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work turning the books around again. Carpenters put new locks on the library doors, fastened all windows. That night Yard cops were stationed outside to watch. Next morning locks and windows were found intact but the books had again been reversed, and for good measure, a portrait of Harvard's ex-President Abbott Lawrence Lowell was hung upside down...
...write down what he saw he developed a brilliant, surfacy prose, an ability to strike off a scene or a portrait in a dozen visual words whose cadence is a part of the mood; the power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair...
Died. James Joyce, 58, great, expatriate Irish author (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake}, who called his native land "the old sow that eats her farrow"; after an abdominal operation; in Zurich. Nearly blind, Joyce fled before the Nazis to a village near Vichy, and in December to Zurich, where during World War I he wrote most of his masterpiece Ulysses...
...between times did more U. S. millionaires than any other artist in history. Deeply devoted to the late, Chicago-born Lady Lavery, one of the beauties of her time, Sir John used her as model for the colleen on Eire's banknotes, hung a new portrait of her at the Royal Academy nearly every year. Observed he in his autobiography: "I doubt if there are a more heartless crew than poets, painters, or composers...
...Donkey Inside is written with beauty, sympathy and control. Its essential quality is the gentle courage of comedy. Blending facts and imagination at the author's fancy, it is incidentally as deft and intimate a portrait as a country could ever hope...