Word: portrayal
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...Pilgrim Fathers, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, or Thomas Jefferson. . . . We like amiable Catholic priests, mystic Bernadettes, charming nuns as well as the next man, but why this conspiracy of silence against America's Protestant tradition? . . . It is high time we have a series of pictures that portray our diverse religious traditions, including the bracing vigor of Protestant Christianity and the moral grandeur of historic Judaism...
...most convivial ambassadorial assignments. He posed happily with Greer Garson (see cut), gently ribbed the industry for "romanticizing us into a nation of scarlet-coated Mounties who are concerned impartially with getting their men and pursuing their women." He pointed out that it had taken Canadian actors to portray U.S. Presidents on the screen (Walter Huston and Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson...
...well-known sequence of words describing the road of human folly. The reserve pattern--courage, cold examination, intelligent farsighted action--is admittedly all too rare, but is always available as an alternative even for the sons of Adam. Listen for the emotional overtones in a group discussion. Whether they portray fear or proclaim courage will usually provide the key to the subsequent course of a bit of human drama...
Cory Grant and Alfred Hitchcock bravely announced a Hollywood Hamlet in modern dress. "I won't attempt to portray the role," confided Cinemactor Grant, "in the traditional Shakespearean manner...
...memorial to the late, great George Gershwin than Hollywood, after its tinselly tributes to Chopin (A Song to Remember) and Victor Herbert (The Great Victor Herbert), might have been expected to accord. All the more praiseworthy because it deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...