Word: portrait
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...terms of character, however, Shakespeare's interest--and ours--centers on Richard himself, who emerges as a portrait of fantastic subtlety and complexity. Richard is bright, sensitive, and articulate; he is also prodigal, self-indulgent, and histrionic. The actual coronation of the historical Richard was unprecedented in pomp and splendor and set the pace for the king's 22-year reign. As Shakespeare limns him, Richard is, further, an ideal case study of what modern psychiatry knows as a manic-depressive...
Recently, two so-called disadvantaged ten-year-olds were in a heated argument in school, where they were seated across the table from each other, drawing each other's portrait. One boy had drawn the other with an extremely long neck. When the art teacher inquired about the trouble, the irate youngster asked, "Who in the hell does he think he is, Modigliani?" MARIE L. LARKIN Supervisor of Art Board of Education St. Louis
...portrait of Robert Kennedy by Artist Louis Glanzman is a masterpiece of mood. It not only projects the exhaustion and fatalism of one man, but it seems also to echo the look of a nation engulfed in tragic sorrow, angry disillusionment and political despair...
Passionate Madness. Perhaps Russell, for all of his years in the public eye, was and is too shy to sit still and be revealed-even before himself. A better sense of his essential qualities emerges from a reading of A History of Western Philosophy than from this self-portrait. In fact, the most pertinent comments and judgment about Russell himself come in the observations and strictures of others. For example, his brother Frank wrote to him back in 1916: "What the world wants of first-class intellects like yours is not action-for which the ordinary politician or demagogue...
Nearly half the book is given over to the Army-McCarthy hearings. Cohn's retelling, though, is more dialectic than discussion, and its only virtue is that it provides yet another unedifying glimpse behind the Senate caucus-room scenes. More interesting is his sentimental portrait of the off-camera McCarthy. Here is Joe hiding four dozen toys for visiting children; Joe eating cheeseburgers in fancy restaurants; Joe giving a plane ride to an antagonistic correspondent; Joe, in defeat after censure, slumping in a chair to watch a TV soap opera...