Word: portrayal
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...PATENTLY ABSURD to portray the disruption of Caspar W. Weinberger '38's speech as a violation of freedom. It was a defense of liberty and a statement of outrage at its usurpation. The behavior exhibited by the students who shouted him down would indeed be unacceptable if Weinberger were not who he is. But as spokesman for the Reagan Administration's war policies. Weinberger has no problem getting his views across, ludicrous as they are. He has all major media at his beck and call unlike the students who stood up to his propaganda. This fact alone would...
...biography of John Maynard Keynes appeared in 1951, an acquaintance remarked, "This is the biography of Lord Keynes. Someone else must write the life of Maynard." That someone is Charles Hession, author of John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan; 400 pages; $22.95). His ambitious treatment draws on previously unavailable material to portray the private life of the man who forever changed the nature of capitalism by asserting that deficit spending could cure business slumps. The unique angle and breadth of Keynes' vision, Hession argues, were rooted in a combination of intuition, poetry and bisexuality...
...nation's cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...
...elected with the help of contributions from political action committees (PACs). Mondale last week promised to establish a $400,000 escrow account to repay the PACs. It is almost inconceivable that the convention will rule that the delegates should be taken away from Mondale. But Democrats, who want to portray the Reagan Administration as ethically lax, are not eager for a nominee with a small "sleaze factor" of his own. Also disquieting was the revelation last week that Mondale gets $10,000 a month from a Chicago-based law firm that he joined...
...resolved so easily. At a gathering of local editors in Harare last week, the Prime Minister hinted that he might impose even tighter restrictions on foreign journalists, whom he charged with a campaign to discredit his government. "It is far from being as ugly as they portray it," he said. "Zimbabwe will never die because the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Times of London and the New York Times continue to report unfavorably about us. We continue to make progress and to use whatever means are within our boundaries to survive as a nation...