Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times but was so popular and profitable that he managed to survive and thrive: Rohmer sold him to movies, radio and TV. A mystery himself, Rohmer avoided people, tinkered with spiritualism, in later years wearied of Fu. His last book on Fu (Emperor...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who checked into the Brown hotel fortnight ago. Humphrey visited long enough to portray himself as the only Fair-Dealing, New-Dealing Democrat available. He left with good wishes and the suspicion that he could get California support when and if Pat Brown steps aside...
...rage, called it wanton censorship, threatened to take the issue to the actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government control. Besides, why are you so shocked? You knew what my politics were before you contracted...
...longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become a man of the world, perhaps traveling on an expense account, attending a conference in Washington one day and flying to a UNESCO meeting in Paris the next. In honor of his new status, novels now portray him as having sex appeal and even a lurid sex life." ¶ Academic salaries have not followed the professorial flight to worldliness-and the unworldliness of pay is not uniform. "The professors at the law school and at the medical school, and probably at the business school, may be getting as much...
...announcement describes the course as "a discussion of writings--philosophic or realistic, ironic or satiric in tone--that portray and evaluate the social scene in terms of attitudes and behavior, motives and morality...