Word: self-portraits
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...criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical analysis, and at his death was writing into the schizoid murderer Mr. Jasper (in Edwin Drood} not only the last and most symbolically charged of his Victorian hypocrites, but a sinister self-portrait as well...
...Curt Riess will not disclose, the diary has been deciphered (Leske sometimes wrote German shorthand); translated into rational language (Leske wrote a febrile Nazi slang); the entries dated, edited and rearranged. If, as Editor Riess (who knew Leske) believes, the diary is authentic, it is the first full-length self-portrait in English of the Nazi bomber's mind...
...ironies that Authoress Strauss did not foresee. Irony No. 1: Her leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...
...spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...
...Englishmen, has run through 14 printings. Somewhat revised now for U. S. readers, and brought nearly up to date (August 1940), it seems unlikely that it will reach any such status here; much of its political history is a little too remote from U. S. interest. But as a self-portrait of a great and selfless man, and as an intimate if less complete portrait of a great incipient nation, it has, for any reader anywhere, unique power...