Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your program, gentlemen, is quite the finest thing on the air. It is, I think, the only attempt to handle the medium of the radio with subtlety and color I know of. Invariably I find in it a filling of the senses, a spur to the imagination. You are making serious dramatic history...
...belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum for more than 80 years, that with their gay Flemish color, their microscopic detail yet breadth of execution-photographs of the tiny panels make them look like murals-they are among the most important paintings in the world. The Brothers van Eyck (Hubert 1366- 1426; John 1385-1441) used to be known as the inventors of oil painting. That they were not; oil as a binder...
...torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might reply: easier said than done. Not all the conviction in the world will make propaganda into art. But Author Kataev can fill his own bill. Time, Forward!, a novel about concrete mixing...
...formation, on the Army side of the field facing the Harvard stands, of a line of dignitaries. These notables will be headed by Governor Ely of Massachusetts and will include many prominent figures of the State and Nation. While they are taking their places, a brilliant parade of color guards will enter the Stadium through the portal under the steel stands and take up a position on the Harvard side facing the dignitaries...
...before five o'clock on week days. This is the more difficult as many courses demand laboratory work to be done in the daytime, and the library serving both Harvard and Radcliffe is crowded as well as small. Accordingly, many concentrators spend their mornings at lectures, their afternoons making color charts, and their evenings twiddling their thumbs and praying they will pass their courses in Fine Arts...