Word: representation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Margaret, 18, faced her first trip outside the Empire next fortnight: a hop to Amsterdam, where she would officially represent her folks at Juliana's investiture.
They saw no skeletons, wicked priests, musclebound heroes, firing squads or snarling prostitutes-none of the familiar Orozco trademarks. The mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death...
"Rocco," Huston says, "was supposed to represent a sort of evil flower of reaction. In other words we are headed for the same kind of world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return...
But Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were...
* Virginia-born Hugh Scott, a Navy commander during the war, saw service in Iceland, Europe and the Pacific, also did a wartime stint as an ordinary seaman on a merchant marine tanker. He was defeated for re-election in 1944, after rousing Democrats to cries of "snobbery" and angering many...