Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filling in the gap between The Flowering and Indian Summer, comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South...
...book is an improvement on its forerunners: Dreiser is no longer content to draw a caricature with his fist; he attempts to paint a portrait, and regards his villain with some compassion. Cowperwood is loyal to the wife he does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He never repents his deeds, or sees a need to, but he makes a futile attempt at good works by endowing, in his will, a charity hospital. This escape-hatch from hell is closed, however, when the ill-gained wealth is dissipated by executors, lawyers and heirs...
Included in the long list are Ann Radcliffe dresses at proletariate prices, designed for children after the costume of a lady Ann Radcliffe portrait; kerchiefs stenciled with the college shield; hand-knitted argyle socks; baby booties; painted trays; Radcliffe table linen; chocolates; and game-of-chance equipment...
...American cities which have symphony orchestras a display called TIME for Music. From our standpoint, this display is designed to call attention to TIME, to our Music department and to our advertising pages. It is a quiz consisting of 24 enlargements of TIME covers, with the cover portrait replaced by famous composers from Bach to Gershwin. Attached to each cover poster is an excerpt from a story in TIME'S Music department-but omitting the composer's name. With the excerpt as a clue, passers-by are asked to pause at department store windows, read the quiz questions...
...Possibly, she became a little odd as people are apt to when they are poor and live too much alone," one of her friends confessed in a monograph for the show. "This was especially true during her last years in Rome, where she did . . . one very remarkable portrait of herself." Said one Providence critic after studying the portrait last week: "It is the face of a woman who, looking in a mirror, sees Death...