Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...familiar with Harvard Square slush. Even the wildest extremes of Bolshevik art fail to stir those of us who have gazed upon Memorial Hall. On the whole, the case for Bolshevism has thus far been presented in an unfavorable light. Now, however, the Hasty Pudding seeks to portray for us the glamor and charm of Bolshevism, while tactfully avoiding the unpleasant technicalities of the subject. And what, pray, is the result? This Bolshevik advance agent commits the crowning folly of his clown-like career by politely declining the aid of the Hasty Pudding's marked dramatic talent. Although our faith...
...story is of an English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead...
Excellent pictures portray Harvard activities. The hockey team is shown breaking the ice. Pictures of Harvard professors "in the public eye" remind us of the service that Harvard is contributing to the solution of reconstruction problems...
Little is known of John Harvard. Biographers who have attempted to portray his life have ascertained only a dozen dates of his career, and several of these indicate in a very uncertain manner the more important events of his life. The records state that he was born in 1607, that he was the son of a butcher and that four of his brothers and sisters perished in the great plague at London...
...communique, admitted briefly that their permanent positions had been broken into on a short front. But the interpretation accorded this admission in the newspapers is bound to have a greater effect on public opinion, and one of the most representative of these, the Lokal Anzeiger, actually attempts to portray it as a moral victory for the Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery of our troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders...