Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Salles and his colleagues had good reason to chuckle. Reason: the winning work was not there at all, but 3,620 miles away on two 9-ft.-8-in.-high walls at Paris' new UNESCO headquarters (see color). In a sense, the choice of Joan Miró, 65, involved some polite intramural logrolling. Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works...
...past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully. Miró's principal aim: "To make the murals harmonize with the architecture...
...have any color car you want," Henry Ford used to say, "so long as it's black." The father of modern mass production not only stuck to a few colors, but turned out more than 15 million model Ts over 19 years with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer...
...American Indians). Agent Rivers is finding the white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...
...discredit to Oberlin's able President William E. Stevenson to say that while his predecessors were scholars, he -a onetime Wall Street lawyer - is primarily a money-getter. Even for a relatively wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings...