Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flushing of Big Ed Pauley as a commodities speculator (TIME, Dec. 22) set off one of the most spirited political shoots that Washington has seen in many a year. Pleased with the size and color of its first bird, the Republican-dominated Senate Appropriations Committee began to beat the bushes for more big Administration names...
...apathy. So he worried even about symbols. "When the Catholic Vanguardists were first formed, in 1919," he said, "they had a black flag embroidered with a golden cross and the motto 'Christ or Death.' It was an exciting flag. But the Fascists got a monopoly on the color black; so we have to fall back on white-the color of innocence but hardly inspiring. . . . Those cursed Fascists...
Muralist Santiago Martínez Delgado has an artist's feeling for form and color, an expert's taste for whiskey. Last week, the two concerns were closely connected. In a salón of the National Capitol in Bogotá, Martínez was busily slapping strong blues and rich reds on a 30-ft. expanse of wall (see cut). His mural will depict the inauguration of Liberators Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander at Rosário de Cúcuta in 1821. If he finished on time there would...
...strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment of the education best suited to his aptitudes." The commission...
Lamplit Target. The excitement, color, and fighting of Ben-Hur, though set in the Rome of the early Christian martyrs, came out of Wallace's own vivid experience, says Biographer McKee. He had been stimulated to think out his own religious convictions to answer the century's famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain...