Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's foreign problems, he said, color and overshadow the budget problem and other domestic factors; the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, can be ignored only "at our future peril...
...protect the delicate flowers against vibration and shock, Bierweiler perfected a technique which buttresses the stems, leaves and petals, without obstructing the fine details of color and design...
...Japanese armies approached Peking. Most have never been seen outside China. Now, with the opening of a small museum in Peikou, Chinese art lovers have their first chance in a generation to see the few treasures chosen for display. But the vast majority, including many here reproduced in color for the first time, remains locked away, the unseen legacy of one of the world's richest cultures...
...over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after, such scenes appeared as "the very truth of Heaven...
...produced an epicurean age of elegance, not unlike that which marked the courts of Europe in the 18th century. The great pottery works of the Sung emperors were revived and expanded. For Emperor Hsuan-te's Dragon Soup Bowl, craftsmen ground rubies to powder to achieve richness of color; court ladies dipped their fingers into exquisite candy dishes for the cardamoms and nutmegs that served as breath sweeteners. Jade was in such demand that by the time of the Manchus there were thousands of workmen carving and polishing objects, many so precious that they were used only for display...