Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations! TIME scores again. ... I have read reviews of the Silver Jubilee and the biography of George V in a number of magazines-but TIME'S account tops them all. As a former Canadian, I can say that you truthfully portray His Majesty as neither showman, dictator nor demagog...
...Life is bound by no censorship, so why should the stage, which attempts to portray life, be censored?" Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed last night at the Plymouth Theatre, was giving her opinion of the move to "clean up the stage and screen...
...many centuries authors have tried to portray the power of Christ and his influence over all men. The picture has been drawn in innumerable ways, by E. Temple Thurston has found perhaps the most striking device possible in the story of "The Wandering...
...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
...That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing was a "Sermon in Six Dances" meant to portray "The Coming of the Messiah...