Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College's petition to use the former one-family house as a permanent dormitory was vetoed by Building Inspector Stephen R. Spencer, who claims that city zoning laws limit the Garden St. section to single and two-family dwellings...
...point that "Malaya" gets across is that greed has no nationality but Americans have. Jimmy Stewart and Spencer Tracy play two American nondescripts, one a newspaperman and the other a convict. They are sent to Singapore to steal rubber from the Japs during the war. The rubber stealing business makes a reasonably good Terry-and-the-Pirates adventure story; but the obscure transition by Tracy and Stewart from riff-raff to flag-bearers makes the whole plot implausible and over-sentimental...
Besides playing in the Houses, the HTG will start a reading theatre, similar to the Dramatic Club's, which will present performances of rarely-seen plays. It also plans to import theatrical celebrities to talk on drama and to give the money earned thereby to the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund...
They had persuaded such British artists as Sir Francis Rose, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer to contribute designs, and they hoped the high, wide & woolen results would be shown and sold in France and the U.S. as well as England...
...whole, the Edinburgh tapestries did not compare with the modern ones being made across the Channel at Aubusson (TIME. March 8,1948). Among the fine few, Sutherland's gawky Birds were abstract enough to look all right in wool. Stanley Spencer's cabbage-laden Gardener was both earthy and pretty, but The Garden of Fools., a soup-thin parody of medieval tapestry design by Surrealist Cecil Collins, was neither. "The fool," explained Collins brightly, "is the symbol of creative innocence embattled with the modern machine . . . The saint, the artist, the poet and the fool are one; they...