Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Held, who is deeply interested in animal life, is now working on the clay statue of a horse, "which may turn out to be a man or a mess." He is also planning a portrait bust of the late Heywood Broun '10, a close friend of the cartoonist...
...what that is, Joyce himself has given such intense and definitive statement-directly in A Portrait of the Artist as a Voting Man, by implication in every word he has written-that no biographer can hope to add to it. None should try. But any biographer may add much in the way of purely factual material...
...claim to either. Its perceptions are safe and uncritical. It is nicely written: yet it would be hard to find a definitive sentence in it. In appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even as a young man, he understood too much to set it down easily...
Like its author, Through China's Wall defies classification. It is part exquisite travel book, part exciting history, part exotic philosophy. But above all it is a portrait portfolio of a race. In deft, humorous, economical sketches, it explains (better than a whole stack of dry-as-dust commentaries) why the Chinese people lose battles but somehow win wars. Typical snapshots...
...belfry of Germantown School's main building still hangs the original school bell; above it still swings a weather vane with three bullet marks from Hessian muskets. But 177 years have softened the memory of old Schoolmaster Dove, and last week Germantown Academy proudly unveiled a newly acquired portrait of its scheming, irascible, sarcastic founder...