Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
Last week the Communist Party organ Szabad Nep called on the government to crack down on jampec-dressed youngsters. Cried Szabad Nep: "They portray the dismal picture of imitating the American gangster's misanthropic spirit, moral decay and spiritual degeneration . . . Can we treat with indifference the fact that our youth are taught to dance sambas to the tune of the Hungarian czardas...
...understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...
...Anglican Chaplain Choyce in Leslie Greener's No Time to Look Back (see Recent & Readable) is such a man. So are some of the central figures in recent works of such Roman Catholic writers as J. F. Powers (Prince of Darkness) and Harry Sylvester (All Your Idols), who portray this kind of priest so movingly that their work is a rebuke to a popular bestseller theory, i.e., that the life of renunciation is jolly as a clambake, soothing as a tepid bath...
Noel Coward is starring in a play of his own, which attempts to portray the emotional and psychological aspects of a love triangle involving a psychiatrist, his wife, and his lover. The effort to trace the disintegration of his marriage and his personality through a long series of flashbacks produces fine acting and dialogue; it is weakened by the instruction of melodramatic necessities of the plot...