Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juliet Colman may be forgiven for adoring her father in Ronald Colman (Morrow; $7.95). Still, the early intelligence that the actor was "a man's man but women's idol" gives warning that the book is a family correspondence that has embarrassingly escaped into general circulation. The Briton's jaunty charm and his finely constricted delivery are far better commemorated in Lost Horizon, A Double Life, and other ancients that so persistently prove the durability of celluloid over pulp...
...tone if not in specifics, these adverse judgments reflect the view of Truman's contemporary enemies, who considered him a clay idol with human feet. The now beloved Missouri Democrat had the dubious distinction of scoring the lowest Gallup popular-approval rating (23%) ever accorded a President-lower even than Nixon's 24%. In fact, Harry Truman's entire career was riddled with paradox and contradiction. Although he was so scrupulous that even in the White House he used his own stamps on personal letters, Truman was the product of Boss Pendergast's corrupt Kansas City...
...have never been spoken to like that in my entire life," says the pretty, pushy woman who has elbowed her way into the briskly cross-talking circle around egomaniac Matinee Idol Garry Essendine. "Well, make the most of it," he replies, throwing the line casually away over his shoulder, serenely confident that there are hundreds more where that one came from...
...with his Utopia. Sometimes Hicks places this Utopia in an imaginary place, sometimes at Virginia's Natural Bridge (which Hicks never saw but adopted from an engraving), or the Delaware Water Gap (which he may not have seen either). He certainly had never seen the grave of his idol William Penn, who was eventually buried at Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, 30 miles northwest of London. With typical disregard for mere historical fact, Hicks has substituted a hedge for the wall that surrounds the burying ground. But then, Hicks has no great interest in natural fact either. The "elm" under which...
...character with a strong does of the ridiculous, and his Tartuffe becomes a true figure of satire. Orgon, although the personification of another variety of folly, elicits very different reactions. Played by John Cross, he is a pathetic, even pitiable character, grossly misguided in his worship of a false idol...