Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Dominic Elwes, 28, free-spending man-about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary...
...excerpts from the Almanack de Gotha. Relatively free of footnotes, the book is really one gigantic footnote to Proust's masterpiece. When he is not playing the elaborate chess game of fact v. fiction, Author Painter does communicate his passionate curiosity about Proust, and he draws a lively portrait of the sick, sick, sick French society that molded the Proustian sensibility...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid...
Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A balanced portrait by an able Washington reporter who convincingly presents Joe as a reckless political hipster...
Borrowing his pigments from this true story, one of Japan's leading novelists, 34-year-old Yukio Mishima (The Sound of Waves) has painted a vivid, quasi-existential portrait of an Outsider. He has also given his novel at least as many symbolic levels of meaning as the triple-tiered Golden Temple. In the U.S. the book is unlikely to match its Japanese success, but its underlying theme is far from insular-that beauty, and perhaps civilization itself, may inhibit and paralyze the will to live...