Word: colorlessness
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...takes a weaver a month to fill in one square yard of tapestry. First a set of colorless threads called the warp is strung on the loom to serve as the foundation for weaving. The other set of threads, the colored weft, is all that is visible in the finished tapestry. The weft passes over and under the warp; each time a different colored area is indicated in the cartoon, a bobbin holding a different colored thread must be used, and the ends of the different colored threads must be tied to hold the tapestry together. A tapestry is made...
...your name?" "S-s-s-so- and-s-s-s-s-so" ' ' The novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako, U.S. Army, has colored skin, but beneath it lies a colorless stereotype. As Baako and his German sweetheart careen from the valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even...
Descending the Hill by way of Beacon Street, we pass the State House and the great houses fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing...
...Diego County School Superintendent Cecil Hardesty, 55, an able but colorless middle-of-the-roader who based his campaign on experience and a nonpartisan approach to the state's education problems, received the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco's Chronicle and Examiner...
...trouble is in the nature of the beast. The academic president who emerges from Dodd's study is a very sterile being. He has functions and duties, not personality and ideas. And so the university president, straight-jacketed by his far-reaching responsibility and by constant faculty pressures, is colorless. Dodds talks only parenthetically about the joys of the office, about communicating with people, about activating ideas, about the myriad parts of the presidential personality and potential that fall under no specific "function." Dodds' president does not look forward to impending crises with gusto or glee; he does not seek...