Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There Was a Time has the color-blind prose and inability to distinguish real emotions from salable affectations that were written all over earlier Caldwell works. But this time, instead of centering around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...
Look at the Sun. Other specialists will watch the sun. During totality, the sun's glowing corona will show up in all its splendor, to be photographed many times in both black & white and in color. The scientists hope that they can work out the suspected relation between sunspots (now near a maximum) and changes in the corona...
Buttressing Buddy (an unprepossessing teddy bear) will be 65 Universal-International color movie shorts, 100,000 record albums, a newspaper cartoon strip drawn by the artists of Superman, Buddy Bear dolls, pull-toys, crayons, paint sets, wallpaper, pajamas, toothbrush holders, cereal bowls, lamps, storybooks-"and countless other items of merchandise . . . under the Buddy Bear name." Some parents suspected that the time might come when the afternoon horror programs would be remembered with wistful regret...
...flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London fog into dim, delicate patterns and close harmonies of color...
...time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves to be successful in its ambitious circulation plans. A little more color in the die-straight writing. and the magazine would appeal to the potentially, as well as the already, politically conscious student...