Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is above all an artless fable, done in a color which is deep in the meaning of the scene-- no easy feat--and not something daubed on as a bemused after thought. The Russian cinema here has joined the English and French in challenging Hollywood's fatcat producers simply by making a picture with imagination and directness...
...Young Bird Knows. Gandhi seriously began his own self-discipline when he went to South Africa as a London-educated vakil (barrister) at the age of 23. There he first felt the full weight of the white man's color bar. More & more he neglected a lucrative law practice to lead his fellow Indians in a fight against local anti-Indian laws...
...Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine for what it considers the "intelligentsia," will not desert its long-standing partisanship of "radical values and literary standards...
...color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed "Chinese" Gordon's British army in the Sudan...
...thousands of items as curious as these. Author Randolph says that although the old notions die hard, many of them are in fact dying: "Wherever railroads and highways penetrate, wherever newspapers and movies and radios are introduced, the people gradually lose their distinctive local traits and assume the drab color which characterizes conventional Americans elsewhere...