Word: portrayer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While neither side lost face in the negotiations over the plane, Peking clearly gained ground in its efforts to portray Taiwan as an integral part of China. Said one West European diplomat: "It seems that the rest of the world has accepted Peking's position that its dealing with Taiwan is an internal matter." Faced with that reality, Taiwan's nearly 40-year-old policy of the "three nos" may find itself bending more and more with the prevailing wind...
Such charges have inevitably followed successful women and probably will until female bosses outnumber males. Goldberg makes a halfhearted attempt to portray Bourke-White as a feminist heroine, but concedes "she often acted in ways no self-respecting feminist could approve." Indeed. Impediments to her work regularly aroused hysterics and tears. When Author Erskine Caldwell decided that he did not want to continue collaborating with her on a book about the South, she "raped him," according to Caldwell's agent. (The collaborators were later married and divorced.) One of Bourke-White's long- suffering secretaries came to regard her boss...
...provided little wisdom at all, serving only to perpetuate inaccurate and damaging stereotypes. Though "Pre-Meds" may be overzealous in their quest for grades, I doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages...
Writing about India poses, of course, a similar dilemma. Those aspiring to something beyond costumes and pageantry must try to portray the native inhabitants from within, as they think and feel, to disprove Kipling's saw about the twain never meeting. This task is not only difficult but potentially self-defeating, since the allure of India to many Western eyes lies in the exotic ineffability of its people and spectacles...
...indulgences. "I do not like reading my old poems," he wrote one admirer, "because I am not working on new poems." Yet reading his old poems before bedazzled crowds was what he was paid handsomely to do. His letters supply no evidence that he seriously contemplated suicide. But they portray, powerfully, a man trapping himself in a quandary from which there seemed to be no earthly escape. His poetry survives. The impractical young dreamer from Wales may have been wrong about almost everything but his immortality...