Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finger-Fono. All this scriptural activity flows from a paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
...Winslow Ames. 141 pages. Shorewood. $4.95. Drawing, it has been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies, from figure studies...
...under a gaudy circus tent in the fabled pink city of Jaipur, the leaders of India's ruling Congress Party talked themselves hoarse last week in the first intensive effort to refurbish their political image since independence came in 1947. Propped on sausage-shaped bolsters under a huge portrait of Gandhi, the dhoti-clad politicians pledged "self-sacrifice" and "democratic socialism"-and at mealtimes roared off in fin-tailed limousines. Endorsing "non-alignment," party leaders warned ritualistically against "entanglement with military blocs"-even as U.S., British and Indian warplanes flew over New Delhi in joint air exercises. After...
...their ballots for a list of government-approved candidates. Voter No. 41 in Section 9, Quarter 5 of Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot. He handed it to the board president, who solemnly announced, "His Excellency Francisco Franco Bahamonde...
...rushes to the rescue, gets caught in a culture riot inspired by Tropic of Cancer, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER BATTLES COPS FOR DIRTY BOOKS) and his daughter kicked out of school. Sandra then shoots off to Paris to study painting, and gets a portrait of herself reprinted in LIFE-a portrait with five cubistic breasts. Father rushes to the rescue, steps innocently into a maison de tolérance to make a phone call, gets caught in a raid, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER NABBED WITH UNDERWORLD QUEEN...