Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The so-called TV magazine features a portrait of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, a look at the contemplative life at Poor Clare Monastery in Omaha, Neb., and American rule in Okinawa...
...FRENCH: PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE, by Sanche de Gramont. Only the cuisine comes off unscathed in this analysis vinaigrette of the French national character...
...various versions of one portrait. Rembrandt explored the complexity of his character. He drew his friends: a lawyer, a merchant and Clement de Jonghe, a print seller from Amsterdam. All editions of the portrait of de Jonghe have the same skeletal composition. His strong body is buttoned into a jacket and surrounded by a cape. He sits leaning on the arm of a straight-backed chair, gloved hands resting in front of him. He carries a large-brimmed hat as though it were part of his head...
...Mabler and certain of the later expressionist composers. But Bruckner can be dismissed as easily, and with as much in telligence, as can Beethoven or Chartres Cathedral. This image of an uninspired symphonic rhetorician of beleaguered loquacity, "tortive and errant" as Shakespeare's Agamemnon, must yield to a clearer portrait of a consummately endowed symphonist firmly in the classical tradition...
...culture hero even if he wasn't destined to be one. The appearance of the article guaranteed fulfillment of their prediction. They printed big two-page photo of Farina surrounded by quotes from his book and had Joan Baez, Farina's sister-in-law, write a brief portrait of him entitled "Child of Darkness," which, to Joanic's credit, is genuinely touching. It is reprinted as an introduction to Long Time Coming and may also be found in the middle of Miss Baez's phenomenally saccharine autobiography, Daybreak. The title of the article is a reference to "Children of Darkness...