Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...
...NAMED MAYS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV portrait of the Giants' Centerfielder Willie Mays...
...GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore...
...late Stephen Ward, as pictured in the report, was not only "the provider of popsies for rich people" but caterer as well "to their perverted tastes," and an avowed Communist sympathizer who yearned to paint Khrushchev's portrait. His close friend, Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, was a spy who made no secret of his activities. Poor Christine was "enmeshed in a network of wickedness" from the time she arrived in London at the age of 16 and took a job as a showgirl-"which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes...
Luther, by John Osborne. Every age paints the portrait of past genius in its own image. The convention of the 20th century is that a genius must be tortured. He must be physically or psychologically ill, agonizingly unsure of himself, seething with inner violence, driven by morbid fears and furies, restless beyond a dream of peace, a man who draws his breath in pain and his inspiration from despair. If he is a hero, it is in spite of his weaknesses, not because of his strengths. If this hero is a religious genius, he must display an absolute conviction...