Word: portrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he remains by far the most popular political figure. As an ambassador, Dubček will be duty-bound to carry out the orders of his political opponents in Prague. In the highly unlikely event that Dubček should decide to defect to the West, Husak could portray the act as one of political treachery...
...play ran in London and New York until 1964 when Miller left it to direct several BBC productions, in-clouding "Alice in Wonderland," a modern adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic. "I tried to portray the feeling of a Victorian childhood in it," he said "I wanted a Wordsworthian interpretation, connecting her loss of innocence with the dream of adolescence. I'm not sure if it was right for television. It was very somber and quite literate...
...Night, he added, "won the Pulitzer Prize, and it should not be restricted." Nevertheless, the shelves will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
...Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of the Harvard College Classes of 1690-1760," of which 11 volumes appeared between 1933 and 1968. His remark years ago that, "If I live to be 80, I can get to the class of 1800" still stands. He set out to portray these early Harvard men "warts and all," and he observed that "Those who were hanged are just as important as the ones ordained." Of one early graduate, he wrote, "Certainly he achieved no distinction at Harvard beyond that which resulted from his participation in disorders...
These scenes portray the military of the outside world as cruel and mindless, while the village survives as sensible and socially responsible. In the movie, Crichton's sentiment is very much weakened...