Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tailor (who, I understand, also does alterations for General De Gaulle), well, Mr. Stone Just Isn't bulit for Ivy League haberdashery. But for my money he is a portrait of reportorial, if not sartorial, elegance. I wouldn't trade his commendation for a solid gold Phi Beta Kappa key. I. F. Stone
...trial, Mihajlov proved a difficult man to cow. Appearing in a courtroom whose only ornament was a large portrait of Tito, he pleaded not guilty before a three-judge tribunal. He even scored a pre-trial victory when the Croatian Supreme Court sustained his petition to have one of the judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...
LIKE many portraitists, John Singer Sargent had to endure the pique of sitters who did not like the results. A portrait, he once said, is a painting "with a little something wrong about the mouth...
...concrete for foundations, driving nails, painting, digging sewage trenches, boys and girls work side by side-and scrupulously respect the project's list of dos ("girls are always escorted") and don'ts ("no excessive displays of affection") designed to ensure that they do not "contribute to the portrait of the 'Ugly American.'" The students pay their own expenses, prepare their own meals, even kick in a minimum of $10 each to help buy precious building materials...
Robert Amory Jr. '36, chairman of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the School of Public Administration and an organizer of the alumni and faculty who purchased the portrait, made the official presentation to President Pusey. The portrait was copied by William F. Draper '35 for the original he did for the Spee Club and will hang in the third floor lounge of Littauer...