Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from general improvements such as-better and nearer living quarters, modernized cafeterias, and factory play-grounds, Bogner's plans include a novel system of coloring. Ceilings would be the lightest part of the plant, to give maximum effectiveness to the long fluorescent lamps running the length of the building, while walls, though also light, would be slightly darker than the ceiling. Machinery, formerly only gray, would be painted with a newly developed warm color except for danger spots, which would be a flaring scarlet...
Measure out new liberties so none shall suffer for his father's color or the credo of his choice...
...magenta is not now, and . . . never has been the right color of Harvard," the first CRIMSON declared...
...Plympton Street in several years. The storming of the CRIMSON Building followed the discovery by 'Poonsters, still rankling over their 23 to 2 baseball defeat at the hands of the Crime last Saturday, that the ulterior regions of their Ibis had been painted red some observers termed the color crimson-Monday night. In seeking a temporary armistice after Tuesday's fray, Lampy revealed that his stuffed Ibis, even more sacred than the metal one that stands vigil over Bow Street, had been lost in Saturday's revels...
Belmont, a greyish, thin-lipped man in his 60s, calls his painting Color-Music Expressionism. "Inherent synesthetic perceptions" (granted, he explains, to only 5% of humanity) account for his seeing colors when he hears musical sounds. He has supplemented his natural gift with a complex mathematical scheme, based on the comparative vibrations of sounds and light rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted...