Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course impossible for students to convincingly portray a demi-atlas and a serpent. Gordon Snyder as Antony was the less auspicious failure, while Susan Yakutis, charged with the greatest woman's role in drama, seemed more afraid than madequate. Snyder lapsed into manneristic anger, often indulging in worthless shouting; Miss Yakutis lapsed into the torpor rather than the lightning of a serpent, and was manneristic in her fire. Neither penetrated to the fire of the heroic ardor of will, the incandescent poignancy of love. A line shouted is a line destroyed. Neither actor was able to go beyond the lines...
...which we are accustomed to. Daniel is a simple re-telling of the Biblical narrative, and there is no more concern for unity of time and place or for psychological realism than in the original tale. The verses of the text are set to unchangingly strophic music, unable to portray any more than one simple emotion in each "song...
...headline stories (as we all learned during the strike last spring) are inadequate. They tell of things without conveying the sense of things. They describe actions without explaining motivations and ideologies. They portray events without describing the attitudes and ways of life that created and were molded by the events...
...Francisco Bay Area for which we recruited almost 6,000 homosexuals. Only a small percentage of those are represented in Boys in the Band. Some day someone will produce a play or movie that depicts a typical homosexual role in our society. And it won't portray a "deviant" behavior but rather a "variant." And that can be beautiful...
What really had killed the Carswell nomination? Despite Nixon's attempt to portray Carswell as the victim of reverse bigotry on the part of anti-South Senators, the rejection actually reflected a widespread conviction that Carswell simply did not measure up to the stature of men the Senators wanted to see added to the Supreme Court. Even many Southerners felt insulted that Nixon had chosen Carswell to represent them. "I'm voting for the guy," said one Southern Democratic Senator, "but it's great to see the Republicans stewing in their own juice. They made this bed." Most Southerners voted...