Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living French novelists, was pulled up short 23 years ago by the challenge of a friend and fellow Catholic: Was Mauriac's fascination with sin a shade too rapt for piety? Advised Thomist Jacques Maritain: let Mauriac examine his soul to see whether it was pure enough to portray evil "without conniving with...
...covers of your April 30 issue portray ham on the front as well as ham on the back...
...thesis in anthropology, to be published by Mac-millan). She would like to do a whole "dance-play," has hopes of getting such a play produced on Broadway next year. With "actors trained by me," she would try to accomplish a threefold ambition: "To speak as an individual, to portray the spirit of Africa, and to do it through the African dance idiom...
...first week on the job, Critic Smith took after the star of a Covent Garden performance of Madame Butterfly. For him, Soprano (and onetime Australian golf champ) Joan Hammond was "not equipped by physique or temperament to portray the fragile, trusting heroine. There was about her a heartiness . . . suggesting she had left her riding crop just outside the door." With that, the storm broke...
...would like to take serious objection and express my deep disgust with the cover . . . To portray China and her many people as a swarm of insects represents to me a new low in journalism...