Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headed by President Conant and former President Lowell, a large congregation of University officials and students will honor Professor Julian L. Coolidge at the regular Lowell House High Table dinner Monday night, when a portrait of the retiring House Master will be presented to the College...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein was born in Manhattan, but he has made his reputation in London, where he moved a generation ago. There he is known as the bad boy of the English art world. Justly famed for gaunt, incisive portrait heads, he has kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong...
...cinema on the Virgin Mary, titled The Queen of Queens. Director De Mille is an old hand at lavish religious spectacles (The King of Kings, Ten Commandments, The Sign of the Cross). But the Sodalists were disturbed to hear that he had bought the film rights to Family Portrait, a last-season Broadway play which Catholics objected to because it showed Mary as the mother of other children...
Yours is a heavy responsibility." To this letter Director De Mille, whose dictum is that no religious film has ever flopped, made soothing reply. Having promised to use no part of Family Portrait in his picture, he added: "We are approaching the hallowed story . . . with a deep sense of responsibility and with the same spiritual and artistic thrill that impelled the making of The King of Kings...
...those who preferred admirals to ships there were 20-odd polite portraits by such U. S. classics as Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale, depicting bigwigs of early U. S. naval days. Crustiest entry: a full-length portrait by 18th-Century, German-born Genre Painter Daniel Nicolas Chodowieki of John Paul Jones standing in a misty landscape with a defiant expression and one day's growth of beard...