Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill's trenchant portrait of an alcoholic innkeeper who cannot live up to his illusions...
Harvard Freshman Philip Alston Stone, 18, wrote this fictional portrait of a Southern demagogue last year when he was still in prep school (Hotchkiss). No male Sagan, Novelist Stone is a chip off the writing desk occupied by William Faulkner, his famed fellow townsman in Oxford, Miss. In his rhetoric, country humor and nightmare vision of social change and violence. Novelist Stone resembles Faulkner, much as a shrunken head resembles a life-sized...
When it comes to the why rather than the how of his hero-villain, fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
Climaxing the day's events will be an evening program in Sanders Theatre. Described as "a portrait of student life at the College," the program will present talks on academic and extra-curricular activities by undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members. Among the speakers will be a Ph.D. candidate discussing her thesis with a professor, several undergraduates explaining why they came to Radcliffe, and a teaching fellow...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...