Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First is interest at the moment because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...
Also exhibited is the first serialized publication of the later version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which is regarded as one of the most important works in the development of the modern novel, since it marks Joyce's unmistakable departure, from literary tradition, and his first experiment in recording the activity of the sub conscious mind...
...were appointed to the Supreme Court, it would be extremely difficult for him to continue this work. In his recent speech at the unveiling of the portrait of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, he referred to the "monastic life of a Supreme Court Justice," and his friends entertained but little doubt of what he was referring...
...spite of its subject-one of the most negative Presidents the U. S. ever had- orrl the fact that Country Editor William Allen White voted for Coolidge and wrote a partisan biography in 1925, this biography is a sharpshooting, puncturing book, at once the most human portrait of Coolidge the man, the most devastating portrait of Coolidge the politician, and the best account of the Coolidge bull market that has yet appeared...
Only the rare guest gets an individual portrait. Highlights of the book are the portraits of Bemelmans' coworkers. Strict but sentimental Otto Brauhaus, the "Splendide's" manager, was an exception to the usual manager "whose face is like a towel on which everyone has wiped his hands." Otto used to say of his beloved primitive paintings: "Sometimes when I'm alone, I look at them, and they look at me, so brimidif, like this," and "he would look sideways out of his face, just like his primitives...