Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVERY cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner has as byproduct a series of preliminary ink sketches, such as the adjoining one showing Dr. Franklin Clark Fry wading through heavy traffic on Manhattan's East 36th Street near the Lutheran Church House. Dr. Fry remembers it vividly because "I was blocking traffic and everybody in New York City seemed to be honking at me." The final portrait shows Dr. Fry in the pulpit of Manhattan's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 65th Street and Central Park West. For the story of one of Protestantism's most influential leaders...
...series of taped interviews with old grads and undergrads, Harvard backed up its sales talk with a broadly brushed portrait of what a college education should be: a progression from cocksure ignorance to-at least-thoughtful uncertainty. Reminisced Critic John Mason Brown ('23): "I came as thousands of others have, from the semidarkness of the subway into the blinding sunshine of Cambridge and Harvard and the Yard. I wanted to do something in connection with the theater. At Harvard they produced this one-act play of mine, and the minute I heard the first two lines spoken, I knew...
...bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation in 1930 he was decked out in an identical costume. ¶ A 10-in. tall work showing two figures. Though one head is still to be found, they are obviously a man and a woman, clothed...
...Washington days that were both bracing and silly, a caricature of a monumentally pompous pundit, are apt yet perfunctory. Fortunately, time has not weakened Author Dos Passes' power to describe places and incidents. The Great Days has fine sketches of World War II and a sharply drawn portrait of the fallen Ro wandering the streets of Havana and maundering of the days when "there were all the fish in the sea to catch, all the whisky in all the pubs to drink, all the grand guys in the world to be friends with." There is a certain poignancy, however...
...chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait of the artist as an undertaker...