Word: colins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
When Europeans are not worrying about McCarthyism or the lack of culture in the U.S., they are worrying about an American depression. Ever since war's end, many European economists and politicos have clearly seen the catastrophe-just around the corner. The latest doomsayer: Colin Clark, Australia-born economist, Oxford teacher and author of The Conditions of Economic Progress and four other books. Clark as early as 1942 foresaw the great American postwar boom and also won applause for demolishing phony Soviet statistics of vast economic progress in the U.S.S.R...
...letter writer, Colin kept his telegraphic style: he was terse, stuck to the main points, ruthlessly cut out punctuation and unnecessary sentiment...
...show was called Femmes, but few of Colin's 33 canvases contained whole women. One Degas-like study showed a ballet lesson: a room filled with morning light and dust in which four isolated legs without bodies kicked in the air. In another picture, a wistful nude sat on an airy chair, minus her back and bottom. The effect was charming because the spectator's mind quickly filled in the missing portions, like the omitted words in a telegram. A pair of muscular legs and two busy hands easily became a ballerina bending over...
Some critics who like their guitars complete questioned the truncated treatment ("Is Colin a sadist?" asked one solemnly). But they unanimously praised his brilliant draftsmanship and his tender use of color. Wrote Le Peintre: "A great artist . . . Behind his playfulness lies a lot of meditation and some particular mystery which is Colin's own invention...