Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to paint a portrait of an entire generation?" TIME once asked. "Each generation has a million faces and a million voices. What the voices say is not necessarily what the generation believes, and what it believes is not necessarily what it will act on. Yet each generation has some features that are more significant than others; each has a quality as distinctive as a man's accent, each makes a statement to the future, each leaves behind a picture of itself...
...cover portrait of Bennett Cerf, his head below a truncated M, gives him somewhat the appearance of a horned owl, a symbol of wisdom not inappropriate, though Mr. Cerf is a mite less taciturn...
Botero's Our Lady of New York was a gesture to the big city. "Every little village in Colombia has an Our Lady," he says with a twinkle. Into his bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait. Then why another self-portrait at the age of 18 months? "Every artist tells how he started painting in the cradle," he says. Actually he began at 15; his first exhibition in Colombia was so derivative of Van Gogh, Gauguin and others that people thought it was a group show. And it sold...
Esquire magazine ran a full-page color portrait of the Three Wise Men seen as contemporaries: they turned out to be Evangelist Billy Graham, Playboy Hugh Hefner and the psychedelic professor, Timothy Leary. Cosmopolitan advised readers suffering from "holiday neurosis" to consult a psychiatrist for Christmas. The lead piece in the Reader's Digest concerned a housewife so exhausted by her Christmas chores that she finally broke down alongside her dishwasher: "Tears filled my eyes. Suddenly, it all seemed too much: the dirty dishes, the too-tight schedule. Christmas didn't seem worth...
...years, Joyce lived at more than 200 residences scattered across the face of Europe-fleabags and fine hotels, hospitals and clinics, pensions and borrowed apartments, students' rooms and Martello towers. In these settings, Joyce wrote his books, from the epiphanies represented by Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the full achievements of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition, Joyce launched on the world a flood of letters. The first batch, edited by Stuart Gilbert, was published nearly a decade ago (TIME, June 3, 1957). Since then, many more have been found: these...