Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the TV show The Last Word [Aug. 5]: Is not the popularity of this show a kind of snobbishness in reverse? This excessive concern with grammar and its usage is on the level of whether one should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...including TIME Art Director Michael Phillips and myself. "We now have the opportunity," Eliot wrote, "of producing the first really handsome historical survey of American art ever published. The raw material for such a book is already ours." By raw material, Eliot meant an impressive collection of 1,069 color plates printed in the Art section since 1951, when TIME began regular use of full-color pages to illustrate the section...
...color pictures are simply wonderful. However, the "morning sun" in St. Peter's Square is in truth an "afternoon sun," since the church's faqade fronts east...
...sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. She also made $40 a month cleaning up the equipment rooms in the gym. Most important of all, she found more time to study tennis. And in the winter of 1949 she felt ready to take her first tentative step across big-time tennis' color line. She entered the U.S.L.T.A.'s Eastern Indoor championships* and got to the semifinals. (Next year she won the title.) In the National Indoor championships that same winter, she went out in the quarterfinals. When she got back to college, the band, the faculty and the student body turned...
...metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks of "the grey of mediocrity" (the color of the Australian earth and foliage) and the "blue of frustration" (the color of the rainless skies), and these comprise the palette on which White works out his composition...