Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XlV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than strict biology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "A Portrait of Van Cliburn" follows the pianist from rehearsal to performance and during rare relaxation...
...With or Without Roses (Doubleday; $3.95), a collection of 63 of her verses, Mrs. Louchheim shows the influence of her favorite portrait poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters, but displays a sharp, sometimes biting, always knowing wit that is all her own. Her subjects, readers will find, are anonymous, but nowhere is she more on target than in "The Bureaucrat...
...SHORT WALK ON THE CAMPUS, by Jonathan Aitken and Michael Beloff (208 pages; Atheneum; $4.50), is an exuberantly far-out pop portrait of America as seen by two young members of the Oxford debating team that toured...
...into his columns. His criticism was almost always based on stern but high principles. He was also an inveterate writer of incisive letters to the editor. In one answer to a two-column attack by Harold Ickes, he skewered his opponent as a man "who has painted a word portrait of me in his own image. This tendency is familiar to psychiatrists...