Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youth Bearden played pro baseball in the Negro leagues. The 15 works on display at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom gallery are meant to fill in the gap. They range from scenes outside sharecroppers' shanties (see color opposite) and springtime in the cotton fields to a portrait of a gangland adolescent returning home in Harlem...
...organizing ceremonies of their own. Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Madison, Wis., for example, will have an afternoon service commemorating the birth of Protestantism at which the guest speaker will be Lutheran Theologian Bruce Wrightsman. Last week's issue of the Jesuit weekly America had a portrait of Luther on its cover; inside, an article notes that it is now the consensus of Catholic theologians that "Luther was a profoundly spiritual thinker who was driven to revolt by worldly and incompetent Popes." In Europe, Catholic theologians will be among the handful of observers allowed by the East...
...worship service this month attended by several hippies, Williams began his sermon by wishing everyone "Merry Christmas," explaining, "It's Christmas today because life comes as a gift." Picking up a dazzlingly colored paper sack, which he called "my psychedelic bag," he pulled out of it a framed portrait of himself, hung it around his neck and announced: "I'm too concerned with myself. So I carry my hang-up with me, baby. Two thousand years ago, a man said, 'Look, man, you can be free-you don't have to have that hang...
BADEN-POWELL STAMPS bicycle-mounted field messengers, the prototype of the subsequent Boy Scout. The appearance of a subject's portrait on an officially recognized postage stamp reportedly shocked Queen Victoria to the whalebones; she deemed it highly improper that any but the ruling sovereign's likeness should appear on any postage stamp within the British Empire...
...which commenced in 1861 when one W.H. Mumler, an engraver employed by a Boston jewelery firm and in his off hours an amateur photographer, first claimed to have stumbled upon the ability to produce images of the dear departed standing or clustering behind a portrait sitter. After Mumler, a deluge of spirit photographers, most notably Mssrs. Beattie, Hudson and Bournsell of London, Duguid of Glasgow, Bland of Johannesburg, Wyllie of California, and Buguet of Paris, practiced widely and appear to have been extensively if carelessly investigated by photographic experts who failed to detect them in fraud. It is only fair...