Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scaffolding set against the vertical face of Mt. Behistun, in Persia, the University of Chicago's Dr. George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda, and to the fact that...
...student to watch was the Boston Mu seum School's Arthur Polonsky, whose sunlit Boy at the Fence succeeded in being touching without a hint of sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...
Until this week, however, we didn't have nearly enough of these new facts to give us a true-to-life portrait of the more than three million people who are reading TIME today. But now we have taken another look at you - by sending a cross-section of you a nine-page questionnaire. Because we were trying to get an over-all picture of TIME'S 1,800,000 men and 1,500,000 women readers from this large cross-section survey, we called our questionnaire About Your TIME Exposure, and the last question asked, "How about...
What makes The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most profound novel is that Henry Scobie, who seems to have one skin less than his tortured predecessors, actually has one more. In Brighton Rock (1938) Graham Greene drew a horrifying portrait of an adolescent Catholic named Pinkie, who was headed straight for damnation, and dimly, desperately knew it. In The Heart of the Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years...
...Wrath. Carl Dreyer's somber portrait gallery of witches and nonprofessional evildoers in 17th Century Denmark. Beautifully acted (TIME...