Word: self-portrait
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Inevitably, much of it turns out to be chaff; Frost, for instance, was a tireless and occasionally tiresome punster. But from the mass of letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...
...says, adding that "the only trouble with playin' guitar is that you can't get the cheerleader girls." He ran away from home at 10, 12, 13, IS, 151) 17 and 18; he was, as he says, "caught an' brought back all but once." In his self-portrait in verse, My Life in a Stolen Minute, he recalls the events of his youth...
...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A "Self-Portrait" of Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger...
...Self-Portrait (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger tells his life story to Harry Reasoner...
Approaching the painter of an avantgarde canvas titled Self-Portrait, Khrushchev asked, "Have you a mother?" "She's dead," stammered the artist. Replied Nikita: "She would die a second time if she saw your self-portrait." He spotted another objectionable work. "How much was paid for it?" inquired the Premier. Told the price was 3,000 rubles, he cried: "Deduct it from the salaries of those who approved the purchase...