Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 24 article on road builders is a marvel of reporting, and the six pages in color are masterpieces which merit the heading "American Art." To make space for them in your Art section, you could have moved Gauguin's Still Life with Apples (a $297,000 gyp) into Business...
...This college is for all conditions and classes of men without regard to color, nationality, race or religion. A man may be white, black, or yellow; Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen, may enter and enjoy all the advantages of this institution for three, four or eight years, and go out believing in one God, many Gods, or no God. But it will be impossible for one to continue with us long without knowing what we believe to be the truth, and our reasons for that belief...
Stanford University's Thomas S. Barclay, 65, who for some 35 years gave life and color to his political science courses through his experiences as a practicing politician (delegate to three Democratic conventions, assistant to onetime Democratic Postmaster General Jim Farley). An expert on Western politics, Barclay gave hours each week to advising students on "practically everything but marriage." When he paid tribute recently to one of his own mentors, he might well have been describing himself. "One of the most humanistic men I have ever met," said he of Historian Charles A. Beard, "a man who would spend...
...recalled, "They were kind of worried about our rating in the South, but it's just as good there as any place else." Yet the show is still unsponsored, and Producer-Director Bob Henry believes that the potential sponsors have been held off by unwarranted fears about the color problem...
...slabs of limestone and alabaster that were still partly white when they were excavated are now, almost three millenniums after their original installation, the color of old ivory. Permitting fleeting glimpses of a completely vanished civilization, the sculptured stones show the King and his attendants at religious ceremonies. On one 58¼-by-53⅞-in. slab (opposite) a formalized, warriorlike Assur-nasir-pal II grasps his bow in his left hand as he balances a chalice on the fingers of his right hand. Behind him stands a personal attendant dressed in knee-length tunic, broad waistband, fringed mantle...