Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduce popular control willy-nilly over every branch of government. But the Vietnam resolution is no attempt to do this; it does not threaten the activities of any Cambridge body. Rather, the resolution is a reasonable attempt to do precisely what the City Council has clearly done clumsily: portray publicly the opinions of the citizens of Cambridge on the war in Vietnam...
...missing from this new novel by the author of Battle Cry and Exodus. The men are a bit on the wooden side, the women and all the subplots largely unbelievable, but once again the West is triumphant-just barely. Unfortunately, for his purposes Uris finds it necessary to portray France's Charles de Gaulle as a fatuous numskull, and though le grand Charles has his share of faults, congenital stupidity is not one of them. Besides, a writer of Uris' commercial talents should think twice before trying to put words in the mouth of one of the master...
Heavy support for White from such officials as Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, state treasurer Robert Q. Crane, Mayor Collins, Sears, and probably from Logue is expected to aid his campaign. But last night at a Harvard Young Democrats meeting, Sears warned against letting Mrs. Hicks portray herself as the underdog. "This could cause great harm," Sears said...
Pudding Faces. In an artistic sense, Master E.S. was handicapped. He knew nothing of the magical discoveries in perspective being made at the time in Florence by Piero della Francesca. His was strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come...
...choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to the Canyon's rocks...