Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century of Progress Fair, is now stored in an Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana as revivalists, bootleggers, stevedores, politicians, soda clerks...
...special focus is on the use made of the press. The average man forms his impressions of world affairs largely from the columns of his daily newspaper. What assurance is there that these columns portray the truth? In fully half the countries of the globe, the news was probably gathered by local news agencies (governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet...
...required course delight in dragging into the argument a romantic description of what a university should be. A community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and to the advancement of learning--such is the picture we have painted. Against this is raised a vivid scene to portray the iniquities of the required course--students frittering away their time in dead and uninteresting subjects at the expense of their true intellectual potentialities...
...fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...
...advantage of an opportunity to go "back to the farm." Gathering about them a group of unemployed families, of the kind that is so pitifully a victim of the world chaos today, the pair set up a simplified self-subsisting community. It is strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from the intricacies of money and all the characteristics of complex existence, all the worldly belongings...