Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welfare and defense, he was showing more than the desire to beat the Harvard drum. He exhibited a frank recognition that the storm over Harvard "softness" toward Communism is in part a problem in public relations, and that one way to weather it is to try to more accurately portray the University to the public...
Only Richard Mayer as the doctor and Edward Golden, playing Belcredi, fall below the general high level of acting. Mayer seemed confused about the proper way to portray a fumbling, pompous psychiatrist and decided to mouth his words and wave his hands--the wrong choice for any role. Golden, to the contrary, had two perfectly adequate portrayals at his command. Unable to decide between them, he used both, thus destroying the merits of each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably...
...choice and order of words in Jefferson's writings enabled [biographers] to rebuild and portray his pattern of thinking, but for contemporary public figures, similar analysis is practically impossible. If, on the basis of letters and speeches, a scholar should try to analyze Franklin
...crux of the picture's weakness is the sketchy portrayal of the mob on which Martin rode to power. A demagogue succeeds only insofar as he is able to play upon people's fears a frustrations. since he is merely a response to their needs, it is impossible to portray him in isolation. Martin displays an understanding of this truth in the motto--"You name it, I've got it"--which he carried over from his peddling days into his political career. The director, however, seems to have ignored it, for his depiction of the backwoods people is ridden with...
...best painting not notables, but the unknowns who happen to move him. His obvious purpose is to make each of his subjects more than a mere personality on canvas; he tries to express ways and qualities of life. For example, Chapin's Ruby Green Singing (opposite) tries to portray "the beauty of Negro music and the Negro people." The grandeur of this idea belies the surface simplicity of the painting. Whether or not the picture communicates as much as Chapin hoped it would, it does find a responsive chord in a great many people. Ruby Green is the public...