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...consistent and brazen supporter of what is now slightingly called representational art," he once said. But much of what he collected was considered daringly modern and experimental at the time. In last week's show there was a boldly patterned Duncan Grant still-life called Parrot Tulips, an Ivon Kitchens and a moody Graham Sutherland that Eddie picked up before any of the painters was recognized. He bought Sculptor Henry Moore's early sketches of sad, nude women, a beautiful Augustus John drawing of a Seated Woman, the watercolors of the Nash brothers, Paul and John...
...Missionary Spy. It was hard work. Methodist Dr. Stockwell learned to parrot a Marxian view of the news, and to give an interpretation of his missionary life as an act of aggression against the Communist government". "I admitted," he later wrote, "that my speaking and writing had made the Chinese friendly to the United States and cool to revolutionary doctrine . . . and that if this was what they meant when they said I was a spy, then I would have to admit that I was a spy, a missionary...
Armstrong's Circle Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). The Parrot, a new opera by Darrell Peter and Frank de Felitta...
...rules the world. Employers who ask her for references are given one of the outraged sniffs that are as much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed umbrella which is the closest she gets to a magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela...
...characterizing Kennedy's record as a "stock party-line vote." It is hard to see how a man can be attacked for voting the right way--even if he happens to share the beliefs of his party. To which must be added the fact that Kennedy did more than parrot the good ideas of others. He fought a brilliant battle for better low-income and veteran's housing; he was the first member of Congress to recognize the necessity for adequate civil defense; he introduced a plan to use money from Tidelands oil for a Federal health program...