Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he is enthusiastic about classical art, Bober's home is filled with art of all kinds. He feels that any natural material molded into a new form by human effort is a work of art worth considering. In teaching, he tries to portray art as an emotional expression. "The trouble with most art courses today is that they teach you too much about lantern slides and not enough about painting and sculpture...
...shacks and spend their time reading, fighting and drinking home-brew," as well as engaging in heated debates about the material they read. In her letter, printed in this space, Mrs. Berg said that she would like to write a book about them, if she "could more aptly portray the lives of these people...
...much of The General's Wench is devoted to bedroom doings that it easily gives the impression of being just one more piece of execrably written pornography. It says on the jacket, however, that Rosamond (Kitty) Marshall's real intention is to portray "the fabulously rich 18th century days of the East India Company . . . one of the most stimulating periods in all history...
...William's rum. Indeed, the lawyer is so inflamed by Sabrina that he abducts her to Belgium, where he ties her daily to a bedpost and flogs her. Author Marshall's descriptions of these whippings seem almost pathological-until it is recalled that she is trying to portray the rich 18th century days of the East India Company, and is bound to take the rough with the smooth...
...difficult now to perceive an objective picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real facts. Everything said by a professor or instructor is tainted with the bitter feelings of the quarrel...