Word: colors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebraska, is the milder light from the cornhuskers' state. He is a better civil engineer and businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
...agree. We have reached a turning point and are now on the upgrade. Racial differences should be put aside. Culture is irrespective of color and culture must be our objective. The trustees have acted with great foresight and understanding, and I, for one, am heartily in sympathy with their aspirations...
...There is no country traveled by man which combines as Iceland does the antagonistic marvels of frost and steam, of ice and fire, of bloom and color, of darkness and light. It is, on the whole, unequaled in all Europe for its gushing fountains of seething water, for its stupendous streams of lava, for its vast volume of milk-white torrents plunging over grim and swarthy rocks, for the varied, weird and fantastic forms of its mountains, for the intense green of its meads and lowlands, and often of its climbing slopes, for the luminous tints of its peaks...
Somewhere in the world there will be a place for the cerise red flannels, of this the social service men are certain. Once red, possibly crimson, this relie of a more cantious era of students yet retains enough color to complete the regalia of a Senegambian chief of comfort the heart of some Polynesian pauper...
...through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally of the thought that organized them; of his color critics have said "Tintoretto," of his fluidity "Byzantium." Whatever such words mean, let them stand. They are good tags because they mean little, explain nothing. No one has ever explained Dominico Theotocopuli. Neither arrogant nor humble, he loved arrogance and understood humility. He painted many gentlemen of Spain for their pride...