Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gallerygoers noted Kantor's never-failing subtlety of color and texture, his sculpturesque use of form, but most of them preferred the more simply enjoyable Cape Cod sand dunes, big trees and haunted houses of previous Kantor phases...
...occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need for "Radditudes" to jazz up its make-up, throw some color and life on its cover, try, something audacious in its contents, and build up the respect of readers, advertisers, and contributors alike...
Each hostel has a house "mother" and "father" but the travelers do their own . cooking and cleaning up. Sleeping quarters are divided by sex, but not by color. Lights go out at 10 p.m. and no smoking or drinking is allowed...
Owls & Mice. At 300 sessions, 1,335 papers were read, on everything from owls to unborn stars. An owl-man, Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan, described experiments on the survival value of protective coloration. He sprinkled a laboratory floor with soil. He populated the area with deer-mice, half of which matched the soil in color; half of which did not. Then he loosed owls, turned down the lights and retired. Over a series of such experiments, the owls, ate 24 to 29% more contrasting mice than matching ones. This, said Dr. Dice, illustrated the biological...
...Color Question (Aug.). In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...