Word: colorfast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...
Steinbeck has tried to feel the Arthurian apestry, not just to look at it from a distance. The Acts tries to re-weave the fabric of this legend in colorfast and pre-shrunk threads of modern idiom. Casting nostalgia aside, one must admit that any tapestry furnishing the room of a modern mind must be able to go in the wash, to be treated as something useable and abusable, not as a museum piece. Steinbeck has come a long way towards making Arthur wash...
...Chicago, the Cubs announcer, Jack Brickhouse, appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white and blue plastic dinner plates called Glory. Some concessionaires, such...