Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faint Smile. The story began in the exciting Paris of the 1920s, through which moved Dominique Lacaze, gathering admirers of her slim beauty and quick intelligence. In 1925, she married Paul Guillaume, a wealthy art dealer, the friend of Apollinaire, Cocteau, Utrillo, and of André Derain, whose portrait of Dominique shows her in a wide hat, with a faint smile, a withdrawn expression and eyes that a man could drown in. In 1934 Paul Guillaume died under curious circumstances. At first it was reported that he had been lost at sea on a fishing expedition, then that...
...think Buffet's portrait is a masterpiece of art. It embodies the spirit of De Gaulle as a cold and impassionate leader of the French people. De Gaulle seems to hide behind a solid granite-like facade of militarism. I would not be surprised if a very warm heart beats beneath the somber appearance...
...Their briefcase cargo: an all-but-final draft of the 1959 State of the Union message incorporating changes that the President had ordered two days before. The President greeted them just inside the door, led them to his long, heated sun porch, where he had been working on a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. They spread out the papers on a coffee table, got down to a line-by-line discussion...
Darkness at Noon has faded as a piece of realism because Koestler's portrait of the Neantherthal second-generation Communist has been grossly exaggerated and laughed out of existence. Clumping about his metallic office in his black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm...
Brooks Atkinson '17 of the Times called it "one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry." He termed the production "magnificent," and said, "In every respect, J.B. is theatre on its highest level." More recently he called the play "a stark portrait of ourselves composed by a man of intellect, faith and literary virtuosity...