Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Maugham admits that all his characters are based on real people, calls the practice "necessary and inevitable," but denies that he ever exhibits a complete portrait. If he did, he says, the character would seem incredible and false. What principally puzzles him is why so many critics have called his stories "competent." Says he: "There is evidently something that a number of people do not like in my stories and it is this they try to express when they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form...
...hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
Fashions in heroes change like fashions in hats, and the ruthless strong man is fast returning to popular favor. Author Blanco, romantic but unsentimental Latin, has always admired the type. His idealized portrait of an imaginary dictator will not please U. S. readers so much as his Journey of the Flame (TIME, Nov. 6), but they will lend a friendlier ear than they would have a few years ago to Rico, Bandit and Dictator...
...Regret, 1915), were valued at nearly a million dollars. Among real estate and personal property worth over $6,000,000 were his 634-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. ($2,186,000), his private railroad car Wanderer ($25,000), his yacht Whileaway ($62,500), Van Dyck's Portrait of Sir William Villiers ($60,000), Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of A Lady ($18,000), two pink Oriental shirt studs...
...Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance those who prefer violent realism...