Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapid rate. The hemorrhage of U.S. gold has become alarming-nearly $1 billion in the past two months-and last week President Johnson took some stern actions to stop it (see THE NATION and BUSINESS). It is obvious that for some time to come, gold will continue to color the decisions of governments from Paris to the Pedernales...
...hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into supermarkets, restaurants, executive suites and department stores...
...most powerful exponents at the moment are Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein (see color opposite). Both are former abstract expressionists. Pearlstein, 43, is a shy, bespectacled native of Pittsburgh who studied at Carnegie Tech, painted signs for the infantry in World War II and moved to New York in 1949. Not until a decade later, while sketching the ruins of Rome on a Fulbright in 1958-59, did he rediscover the joys of literally recording reality. Since 1962, his paintings of models, male and female, standing, sitting or lying in unglamorous poses round about his studio, have won well-nigh...
Like most South Africans, regardless of color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy. For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart...
...first ten minutes of the game, play on both sides was so incompetent that the only difference between the two squads was the color of their uniforms. A Penn player set the tone for the first period when he pounced on a loose puck five feet in front of the Crimson nets and lifted it over goalie Bob Higgins, over the goal, and over the glass barrier, narrowly missing a spectator in the top row beneath the scoreboard...