Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three nationally-recognized pictorial photographers agreed last night to judge the 200 entries in the University photographic societies" color slide contest, taking place at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Union North Common Room...
...clubs also announced plans for two more contests this year; on February 16 a black-and-white salon, and on May 3 the annual print-of-the-year and color slide contest. Both exhibitions will be open to the University, and the societies will offer prizes to the best undergraduate entries...
...Answers: Lush pasture gives butter a darker color; some red paint is cheap and durable...
...highly picturesque funeral. Actor Gielgud's Raskolnikov can be enjoyed as a brilliantly mannered performance, but as a portrait it is worthless. Ackland's stage piece itself is like a translation that inserts innumerable adjectives while omitting all the verbs; it substitutes atmosphere for action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts...
According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than...