Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower of revolutionary socialism will be as tough a thesis as it was to maintain for four years that "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism...
Golden Boy (Columbia) is not the first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never...
Alexander Graham Bell lived in what was essentially a materialistic age, a fact that may have prompted RKO not to make fame an end in itself in the screen biography that bears his name, now showing at the Keith Memorial. Anyway, Don Ameche is called on not only to portray how the inventor of the telephone obtained recognition but also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court...
...difficult task of brushing aside the veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...House debates--these were once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control...