Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these facts seem improbable in this enlightened age, I can only explain my submission to Father Divine's influence by indicating that I am a colored woman of middle age, with unlimited faith in Divine Providence and a quickness and readiness, through a highly impressionable and emotional mentality, to believe in human perfection and the brotherhood of man. My husband, also colored and of my own age, regards himself as well read in the Bible, and has always sought relief from an inferiority complex resulting from the color of his skin, in the consoling thought of a blessed hereafter...
Last week The Telescope, published by Harvard Observatory, pointed out that conclusions as to the size of the particles in this red nebula could be drawn from its color. If the nebular material were microscopically fine, the light of Antares would be reddened, just as the sun is reddened when it shines through a long slope of the hazy atmosphere at evening. Also, the light from the nebula would be made bluer by selective scattering of the same kind which makes the earth's sky blue.* Actually, the color of the star and that of the nebula are almost...
Describing the gibbon, Mr. Coolidge said: "Many will remember 'Bimbo' the gibbon that made a name for himself in the film 'Chang'. Gibbons stand about three feet high and weigh about twelve pounds. The gibbon is covered with a furry coat that may vary in color from black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
...created a sensation. Entitled The Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open...