Word: portraited
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Every week or two Father Andrew Greeley writes a book. Well, all right, it only seems like every week or two: In fact, Greeley has turned out a mere 80 books in the past 20 years. His serious studies, like last year's The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (Basic Books, $15), should probably be required reading for anyone who cares about religion in America. But Greeley, a senior study director at the National Opinion Research Center and soon-to-be sociology professor at the University of Arizona, is best known for books, columns and articles that people read...
...portrait endures like a retinal image after the lights are turned off, at once romantic and classical: the artist as stoic...
...format--the authors were free to create interesting personalities for their fictionalized characters, but most of the plot was determined by Berkowitz's actions--and the purpose of the book--which was apparently to make lots of money--the authors had little freedom. What starts out as a penetrating portrait of the middle-class tragedy that was Berkowitz's first murder, of necessity turns into a fast-paced detective yarn. It seems as if the authors realized that they did not have enough time to delve into the subtle ramifications of each of Berkowitz's crimes, and settled...
...rejected an offer from the Yale Corporation to assume the post. Well-liked by students, Giamatti served a two-year stint as master of Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's 12 undergraduate residential colleges. He established his reputation as something of an iconoclast by refusing to allow his portrait to hang in the college's dining hall, alongside those of previous masters. Undergraduates instead hung a moose head there, where it remains to this day, a symbol of Giamatti's endearing non-conformism...
...palace rooms, they assembled a kind of encyclopedia of the world's wonders, here painstakingly reconstructed from engravings and a 1587 inventory of objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other craftsmen-a drinking vessel in the shape of an ostrich, an astronomical clock, a carpenter's jack plane or an ornate traveling tool...