Word: portraited
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...authentic portrait of Columbus done from life exists, but there are verbal descriptions: tall, a long face, ruddy skin, reddish hair that turned white in middle age. Adopting Spain as his homeland in 1484, Columbus was never to use Italian in his writings. But he soon became bookworm enough to be seen as an amateur geographer as well as a mariner, and to accumulate a large library. Alas, only four of these volumes survive with his annotations...
...Rush T shirts and bumper stickers. He has signed with Simon & Schuster to write a book, The Way Things Ought to Be, and is planning with Republican media mastermind Roger Ailes a half-hour nightly Rush to television. And, accolade of accolades, the moon-faced monologuist had his portrait painted by LeRoy Neiman...
Still, Memoirs is not all misanthropy and -ogyny. Amis gives a generous portrait of his shy, witty fellow Oxonian, the poet Philip Larkin, who like the author had to endure that most mannered of academic dons, Lord David Cecil. One sprightly chapter contains a mercilessly comic imitation of a lisping Cecil pointlessly beginning a lecture. ("When we say a man looks like a poet . . . dough mean . . . looks like Chauthah?") Cecil had the ill grace to flunk Amis for his B. Litt. thesis, but the author uncharacteristically lets bygones be. Perhaps it's too hard to stay angry with someone...
...hanging in the open space are portraits of the Reverend of the First Cambridge Church Nathaniel Appleton (Class of 1712) and the Reverend's wife. Knowles says, with a wry smile, that the minister's wife (in the portrait) scares him back to work with her frown, if he should ever procrastinate...
...hanging in the open space are portraits of the Reverend of the First Cambridge Church Nathaniel Appleton (Class of 1712) and the Reverend's wife. Knowles says, with a wry smile, that the minister's wife (in the portrait) scares him back to work with her frown, if he should ever procrastinate...