Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
...formation of the current Faculty Room and the final elimination of undergraduates from all but occasional and official visits to University Hall. Exactly the same size as the original chapel, this room is where the monthly meetings of the faculty take place. President Conant sits directly beneath the portrait of President Eliot at the head of the round table shown in the picture, Dean Buck to his right, and Dean Hanford to his left. The rest of the faculty faces them, and despite the austere portraits of men such as Longfellow, Agassiz, Henry James, and the famous professor of Greek...
This showing of the French film "Portrait of a Woman" based on a screen play by Jacques Feyder affords little satisfaction to the low intellect movie-goer. A quick disposal of plot by Mr. Feyder and the four superb characterizations of a woman by the actress Francoise Rosay provide a drama which maintains interest throughout...
Within a generation after Peter the Great imported a large group of picked Western technicians, Russia for the first time became a great power. A portrait of Peter the Great now hangs in Stalin's study- and Stalin has not forgotten the lesson...
...sensitive, often inspired eye for people and for cities, and Robert (Henry V) Krasker is one of the best cameramen alive. For perhaps its first hour, their film has excitement enough to oversupply any dozen merely "good" pictures. An outstanding achievement: the film paints a melancholy, multitudinous portrait of a night city. Yet its beauty is at times so profuse and lovingly planned that it weighs the film down much as over-descriptive prose harms a novel. And the story, after a stunning start, branches and overextends itself and gradually loses contact with humanity. The hero is so near death...