Word: self-portrait
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Every presidential election really is a self-portrait of America . . . Into that portrait go all their inherited traditions,' the clashings of different economic, social and sectional interests; the tensions of race, religion and color, as well as the strivings toward tolerance and Americanization; the transitions of aging and rising generations, the tenacious grip of memories of the past; the ferments of hopes for the future.-Samuel Lubell in The Future of American Politics...
...dominant fact of last week's American self-portrait is that Ike Eisenhower's attraction crosses almost the whole varied range of U.S. sections, ethnic and religious groups and economic interests...
Forbidden Apples. Poet Millay, who died in 1950, liked to say she suffered from "Epistophobia," but her old friend, Allan Ross Macdougall, has found enough of her correspondence to make Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay a tender self-portrait...
...feel that the CRIMSON committed a double error of judgment in its recent evaluation and endorsement of Senator Lodge. First, you accepted the self-portrait Lodge has designed for public consumption--the portrait of a liberal leader in foreign policy, a cautious semi-conservative on domestic issues, a man of conviction who places principle above party--without due consideration of his record. Second, you played down Lodge's affiliation with McCarthy and his kind while emphasizing the support of Kennedy by a number of groups and individuals whose only motivation is hatred of Lodge, whose only interest is his defeat...
...they were "crazy" about art and wanted some masterpieces of their own. The damaged paintings: Renoir's Seated Nude, lent by the Chicago Art Institute and valued at $100,000, Picasso's Woman Ironing, lent by a Manhattan collector and valued at $100,000, Bonnard's Self-Portrait, from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum. All four had been slashed, and two completely cut from their frames one to two inches from the edges. Shaken museum officials promised that expert restoration would hide...