Word: portraits
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...self-portrait that Wilson provides is hardly flattering -- he often appears waspish, rude, disagreeable -- but he makes up for it to some extent by being fully aware of his faults. At one point he reminds himself: "Don't talk all the time. It is an error to suppose that other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression...
...Harvard: A Video Portrait," an hour-longdocumentary about higher education at Harvard,will be presented today at 7 p.m. on WNEV-TV,Channel 7, in honor of the 350th. The showcombines film clips from the Harvard Archives andfresh interviews with some current highereducation notables at Harvard and other Harvardbigwigs such as Harvard President Derek C. Bok,Harvard's Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen J.Gould and Harvard's Boylston Professor of Oratoryand Rhetoric Seamus Heaney. Happy 350th to Harvardand everyone else and may higher education prosperat Harvard for at least 350 more years...
Much about John Harvard still eludeshistorians--they have found only two of hissignatures, and neither a portrait by him nor aletter from him has ever been found. The statuebearing his name in front of University Hall isnot actually a likeness of the minister, though itis one of the most widely photographed statues inthe United States...
...Time's emphasis on the modern Harvardeducation and the school's academic reputationdistorts its overall portrayal of Harvard, circa1986. Mention of the divestment controversy, forinstance, does not pop up until several thousandwords into the articles, towards the end of aprofile of Bok sympathetic enough to make up forthe unflattering portrait of the patricianpresident on the cover...
...with his needs, with what he wanted out of life -- a certain level of power, authority. He was relentless." Did the old stand-up routines interfere with his portrayal? "They were sketches," he says. "An artist will do a caricature in a few minutes. To do a full oil portrait takes time. I like to think LBJ is an oil portrait...