Word: colorlessness
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...Richard Anuszkiewicz was a colorless young man-technically speaking, that is. "I was painting still lifes that were getting greyer and greyer," he recalls, still amazed at the helplessness he felt. The tonic he needed was the famous course given at Yale by Josef Albers, who has spent decades demonstrating what marvels colors can perform when left entirely on their own. As can be seen in seven Anuszkiewicz' paintings on display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (including those on the opposite page), the tonic worked...
...average age of Peace Corps men is 25, of women 28, and there are plenty who are in their 50s, 60s and even 70s. Most volunteers feel they have had few glimpses of glory. Many have been racked with illness and bedded down in squalor. They have slogged through colorless tasks, from building chicken houses to digging sewers. They have wrestled with tongue-twisting languages. They have gagged on incredible foods containing everything from cat meat to sheep intestines to fish heads. They have cursed the mistakes of their superiors and muttered in fury at the ignorance and inertia among...
...leaders predicted that they would sell more than 750,000 color sets this year-nearly double 1962 sales. To keep up with demand, Admiral will forgo the usual two-week summer shutdown of its color TV assembly line at Harvard, Ill. RCA, which went it alone during the colorless years, and now sells 55% of all the color TV sets and almost all of the color tubes used by other manufacturers, is spending $11.6 million to expand its plant at Lancaster, Pa. Challenging RCA with new competition, Motorola last week introduced a compact color tube that creates...
...Negro funeral notices 25 years ago, dropped the idea because of Negro complaints. Only recently the paper succeeded in combining the notices along with classified and theater ads in a single edition. There have been gripes about mixups caused by "Help Wanted" ads, but the paper intends to remain "colorless...
...history of the Harvard Press to have sold more than 50,000 copies. Outside of Cambridge it is still read. At Harvard it has unobtrusively become the basis for discussion of college curriculum on both the theoretical and working levels. By the weight of its influence the colorless phrase General Education has been established as the slogan under which some of the most pressing issues of college policy are examined...