Word: colorfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most often in the pubic area (though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...
...Hamilton Banker Sir Henry Tucker, the United Bermudians won on the strength of their solid, four-year record for expanding the island's tourism and prosperity and lowering its color bars-both socially and politically (TIME, May 10). In last week's elections, seven of the party's 30 winning candidates were black, and Tucker is purposefully broadening party membership so that the proportion of black members will match the island's Negro majority (63%). Without any other strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white...
...past. To their delight, this year the sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish culture is itself a confluence of influences: Latin, Visigoth and Moorish...
...Jordan, "but rather one of the best." S.M.U. has already acquired some fine Goya engravings, a distinguished Velásquez portrait; other works by artists ranging from Zurbaran to Miró. The loveliest of the lot is Murillo's landscape showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled branches before their eyes. The Bible says...
...trying to be more liberal but has repressed prejudice." Winfield said. For Winfield it's fun to watch the excessive manuvering: as a black, "You can get away with nearly anything," he said. But Johnson is not amused: "I'm as revolted by attempts to make up for my color as by attempts to subhumanize...