Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides glare and color blindness a common defect of vision is "tunnel vision". A person falls in this catagory, if he cannot see more than 60 degrees to etiher side, when his eyes are focused straight ahead. Average range of vision is about 85 degrees on either side...
...came Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...
Bachelor. The monthly was a 35? smartchart dedicated to unmarried males and called Bachelor. The size of Vogue, on shiny paper with two of its 84 pages in color, Bachelor appeared to bid for a clientele a social cut above Esquire's. Its use of photography and art indicated that Bachelor also aspired to the 90,000 public of the late Vanity Fair. Bachelor's opening editorial manifesto pictured it as "mirroring the varied interests of the discerning cosmopolite, in society as well as in business or profession, in politics as well as in sport ... in adventure...
...Water Color Reproductions...
...verities, such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...