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...difficult now to perceive an objective picture of Gropius by talking to the faculty. Since most of his supporters have left, the ones that remain will usually portray Hudnut as the misunderstood man, and Gropins as the unyielding genius. To the outside observer, there can be no real facts. Everything said by a professor or instructor is tainted with the bitter feelings of the quarrel...
Several comic book publishers have in past years adopted the socalled "Comic Book Code," which provides that their juvenile publications will not overemphasize sex, crime, exhibit racial or religious prejudice, or portray American institutions in a harmful manner. They are, needless to say, the few among the many...
...comes in the classical Legong, in which she dances in an intricate trio for about five minutes, suddenly breaks off (at home in Bali, this part of the dance might last an hour), trots offstage like any twelve-year-old, and returns with a pair of golden wings to portray the Bird of Evil Omen...
...pleasure to find a movie about Paris that does not portray the same old ruts etched by endless waves of tourists. Though Julian Duvivier wrote and directed Under the Paris Sky for a French audience, no one should miss the picture he has painted of a complex, living organism--Paris...
This is every novelist's problem in a nutshell. But it is particularly the problem of the novelist who tries to portray convincingly the mind and soul of a religious hero...