Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provides for a formal declaration on the part of Massachusetts that in accordance with "the American ideal of equality of opportunity...students otherwise qualified be admitted to (non-sectarian) educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin...
...help write the magazine (sample feature: "I hated housework till . . ."), and hires 97 housewives and other subscribers to act as story "scouts." These are not penny-pinching dodges; the editors spend money freely to test their ideas. In the current issue, for an illustrated article on carpets and color schemes, B. H. & G. laid out $9,000 for expenses (which included building and furnishing four sample rooms) before the magazine was prepared to tell its readers...
Rivera himself considers it his best mural. Critics could agree in placing it among the best-integrated and liveliest in color of Rivera's paintings, but they might reasonably complain that it takes the maestro himself to even begin to tell what it is all about...
Detective Story (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...
...Olivier's Hamlet also cinched the distinction of being the year's most laureled picture by winning three other Oscars: black & white art direction, set decoration and costume design. Another Rank film, The Red Shoes, took three more technical honors, for its sets and art direction in color, and musical score...