Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only in minor respects does this year's album, edited by Charles M. Bliss of Evanston, Illinois and Holworthy Hall, differ from those of preceding classes. A new and more readable type has been adopted, and a series of candid photographs appears, purportedly to portray the everyday life of the "typical Freshman," apparently blond-haired, phototropic Charlie Borden, who may be seen participating in all Freshman activities from shower-taking to cramming...
...career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into a tremendously effective play. Philosophic and graphic elements were so intermingled...
...cracks made in Manhattan: "Communists at a meeting yesterday in New York have instructed two of their best writers to portray me as a Broadway glamor boy and particularly to inquire into my affairs with women in New York City...
...peak some weeks ago when RCA Victor sent out a publicity notice to the effect that Erskine Hawkins "had been signed for the production". Hawkins to me and most people connected with jazz in this country typifies the exact antithesis of the type Dorothy Baker was trying to portray in her book. He plays noisily, at fast tempos, without taste--in other words, strictly one of the powerhouse boys...