Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is great beauty of line in the text; greater beauty of line, mass and color in the settings of James Reynolds. Philosophical sagacity and finesse are provided in the argument, but the acting too often bleaches the brilliance of these formidably favorable factors. Stanley Logan and Augustin Duncan play Don Juan and the Devil; Mr. Logan gives a rather inept performance; Mr. Duncan only a fairly good...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...
...neighborhood has changed little in the past three or four year. Blind Dan still sells his papers near the subway station; Herr Engel continues to bestride the Square; Eddie Morris is still the acrobatic, iron-voiced announcer at sporting events; Dennis Enright has not changed from the brown color which has always fentured his attire; and Mike continues to predict victories over Crimson fees
...Describe the phenomena as you saw them: color, sixe, form, noise, etc. including direction of motion...
...Corinth. The J. P. Morgan-financed diggers at Corinth, having removed 5,000 tons of earth, beheld the first example known of large-scale Greek painting-a decoration upon the guard walls of an arena, showing gladiatorial combats lifesize, in color. A Targe Roman villa of the First Century A. D. yielded floor mosaics that are "without doubt the finest thing of the sort yet found in Greece," according to Dr. T. Leslie Shear of the American School of Classical Studies...