Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering Greek democrat of this country. Felix does not boast a grasp of political nuances but he holds a simple hatred for the Communists in Greece...
...good. It has some faint hints of realistic rustic meanness and kindliness. It also has moments of innocently ribald energy which may not be wholly authentic to the backwoods, but are pretty good as lively, half-demented comedy. Against its bits of honest humor, MacMurray's portrait of a stock Hollywood goof and Miss Colbert's skilled smirking over situations which might better have been played straight look flashily flimsy and false. The picture has a lot of fun in it, but it will be most amusing to those who are content to smirk...
...museums in the world which admittedly doesn't insist on good art is London's National Portrait Gallery. When Queen Victoria opened the Portrait Gallery 90 years ago, the trustees were warned never to "consider great faults and errors, even though admitted on all sides, as any sufficient ground for excluding any portrait which may be valuable as illustrating the history of the country...
Ivan the Terrible. Sergei Eisenstein's resplendent, rigid portrait of Russia's first Czar (TIME, April...
Among the permanent features of the Bunny Ratch (an original cartoon by Walt Disney illustrating the nickname shares the place of honor in the dining hall with the portrait of a Saltonstall) is the capacious and well-stocked library, equipped with deep leather furniture that is conductive to relaxation if not to concentration...