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Word: portrayals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your cover painting showing Pasternak's loosened red tie, the thorny forest surrounding the gaunt, weathered face, the serene and snowy hair rising through the turbulence of the stormy sky portray a picture of symbolic beauty. The smallness of the figure in the corner confronting the immense forest, and the craggy jutting power of Pasternak's face convey the esteem that both Artist Chapin and America feel for the unyielding integrity of this lone man who has profoundly shaken the complacency of East and West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

With Playwright Gazzo's desire to portray a new Lost Generation goes a need to empurple it; with his feeling for vivid lingo goes a taste for bad pothouse lyricism. Nor is he aware that violence not only differs from intensity but defeats it, or that such blatant naturalism as his must lead to unreality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...most, if not all, of these flashbacks were eliminated. For most literate spectators, it is not necessary to review the spirit of the Twenties or the life of Fitzgerald. For most, that decade and its Fitzgerald and Zelda evoke more images and emotions than the flashback could ever portray...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Disenchanted | 11/5/1958 | See Source »

Matilda Cole '60 will portray the married woman; her husband will be played by Alan Rinzler '60. Arthur N. Papas '59, Malcolm Ticknor '57, and O'Brien Nicholas '59 will appear as the three intruders. Howard M. Brown '51, a former tutor in Lowell House will direct the production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH to Televise Lowell House Opera | 10/23/1958 | See Source »

...seen Robert Preston in a few summer stock shows; Bloomgarden, too, knew Preston's work. Says Da Costa: "Preston has energy and he has reality. He's an actor who can project himself larger than life. And he has enough sureness of technique and enough urbanity to portray the con man and the opportunist without resorting to a wax mustache. The part calls for a guy with an open face and a great big frustration which he can satisfy only by taking the easy way out -conning people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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