Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAIN RAIN RIVERS, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $4.50). A lyrical portrait of rain from the drips on the windowpane to rushing rivers. The author's blue and green line and wash drawings look appealingly wet and moody...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare has been called the Department of Wealth, Aggravation and Hellfire. Last week former HEW Secretary John Gardner and the present Secretary, Robert Finch, compared aggravations during a ceremony to unveil a portrait of Gardner in the department auditorium...
This dream, of a friendly community of Harvard student poets, probably deserves a harsher portrait than it's going to get here-but who can be cruel to an image fleeing if not already fled, disarmingly optimistic and conceived in such good faith...
Characteristic of Tannahill's personal choice is the late, atypical Rouault Head of a Girl-almost certainly a portrait of Josephine Baker, the girl from St. Louis who discovered early on that Parisians above all people realized black is beautiful. Rouault rarely did portraits of specific persons, and to Cummings this departure from his usual practice suggests "a special relationship" between artist and sitter...
...times grow more difficult, the new looks less promising; the settled old ways take on new luster. Anyone too inclined to idealize the countrified past, however, or dote on the imagined joys of continuity, might do well to study, as a cautionary text, this extraordinary portrait of an English village. Akenfield is a pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which an Englishman has always felt it his right and duty...