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...Tricks. Reynolds owes his sudden success to no flashy artistic tricks, but to a solid originality that has persuaded London critics to tout him as one of the most promising modern painters, young or old, to turn up in a decade. A blond, open-faced Scot, he first learned about art from his father, who had a passion for Cézanne and Turner. By the time young Alan was twelve, he was working in oils; two years later he was on his own, doing odd jobs (gardening, repairing bicycles, working on road gangs) for the money to paint full...
...entertaining there, pursued his hobby of ornithology, housed there his collection of objets d'art (Malay silver and Chinese porcelain) and his rare Asian library. When he showed no inclination to move, the Sultan's men cut off the water supply to the swimming pool. Scot MacDonald, a stubborn man, went swimming in the rivers of Borneo instead, and went on living at Bukit Serene. Last week, however, all appeals to the Sultan's better nature having failed, he packed up his books and bird specimens and moved out. A Chinese millionaire friend, a fellow bird watcher...
Throughout her diary Betsy, in good 18th century style, called her husband by his surname. By contrast, Eugenia was a igth century romantic. The great love of her life, with an impecunious Scot, was troubled and tempestuous. "He could not bear to see me less rich than I ought to be," she wailed in her diary. "But if he has any feeling could he prefer to see me waste my life in wretchedness-?" Quarrels, tears, reconciliations followed. "How different is the Love of a Woman to that of a Man!" wrote Eugenia. Betsy looked on sympathetically, Fremantle less...
Purges. The Ukrainians, 40 million strong and proud of their own mother tongue, have a local patriotism as fierce as any Scot's. "For many centuries," Khrushchev himself once proclaimed, "the Ukrainian people fought for the right to develop their own culture, build their own schools, publish their own literature . . ." Yet it was to root out just such "bourgeois nonconformity" that Khrushchev was sent to Kiev in 1938. Characteristically, he started with a purge, not only of the "enemies of the people" (i.e., Ukrainian patriots) but of "all Communists who have lost their vigilance." Three thousand local party secretaries...
...inclined to think the Committee's functioning vague and inconsistent. Writers, critics, publishers and various literati most frequently fall in this camp. They question the value of banning a 25 cent reprint edition of a work, while allowing the two or three dollar hard cover edition to go scot free, for instance. On the other tack, when one publisher's book came under the prohibitory advice of the Committee, he claimed that the entire group was set up on the "perilous presumption" that 29 individuals can act as censors...