Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as the Administration was basking in this new after-the-battle calm, an ominous cloud of another color scooted across the horizon. Heart of the Eisenhower foreign policy is the foreign aid bill that sets up a long-term economic Development Loan Fund for providing loans to underdeveloped countries. Last month the Senate voted resounding endorsement (57-25) for the plan. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee turned thumbs down on the Administration request, insisted on sticking with the year-to-year tradition, and recommended a $400 million slash below the $3.6 billion the Senate had authorized...
...from the collection's total of more than 1,000 works. The finest U.S. collection still in private hands-and the first to be shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand scale not likely to be repeated...
Hide-&-Seek. Serving up his own bold "antidote to long-entrenched clichés" about Victorian monstrosity, Author Maass says that the American architecture of the period was "distinguished by its pleasurable fancy and exuberant color." Some of the public buildings, e.g., Philadelphia's City Hall, were not in good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight...
...governor of a great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character, and the clash is what made the TV play exciting. Against the seedy raffishness of a steamy Staten Island house and garish honkytonk. the actors caught all the color and dimension of the human beings Odets so acutely observed. As they talked, the idea gleamed that here was where TV Writer Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky first met many of the people he writes about...
...blood, imagines that he is also a cuckold, and so murders his supposed rival in a fit of pique. The movie's single solid acting job is by John Williams as a shrewd constabulary chief. The movie gets no distance at all in solving Santa Marta's color problem, but the color photography is beautiful...