Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...
Winnifred Lenighan, the first woman ever to portray St. Joan, will again fill the little role in Shaw's tragedy next term when the Theater Workshop gives a reading of the famous play...
...sentence declared that "I believe we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found." Wolfe did convincingly demonstrate in his novels what he meant by declaring Americans to be lost. Lusting to record his every private experience with thoroughness and passion, he did manage to portray individual loneliness in a mechanized society and the conflicts of a world torn, between accumulation of money and development of personality. But what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought...
...picture even though it was over dramatized and "corny" to a great extent, was still nonetheless an honest attempt to portray the American ideals of faith in the common man and love of country. Yet because it was this it was jeered from beginning...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...