Word: colors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...article "Intelligence: Is There a Racial Difference?" [April 11]: Most American Negroes are at least 60% Caucasoid, regardless of skin color. Anyone with even a smidgin of intelligence himself plus a knowledge of genetics and U.S. culture patterns (among them sex) would realize that after over 200 years with a negligible number of African immigrants to augment the gene pool, there could be very few if any "pure" Negroes here at this time...
...Then, there is a much larger group of more realistic people attempting to finish in respectible time. Finally, there are the clowns who are out for the fun of it, perhaps hoping to finish. But without the clowns, the Marathon would lose a lot of its color...
...would also lose a lot of color it Jock Semple disassociated himself from the great event. Jock used to try to evict the girls from the race since they are illegal, but he's given up on that. Now he just curses at anything that attracts his attention and condemns the jokers in his Marathon. But Jock likes a few people...
Noland did not want to identify anything, or to represent anything. His aim was to strip away the bonds of drawing and free himself to explore "the infinite range and expressive possibilities of color." To do this, he laid a 6-ft. square of canvas on the floor and walked around it until he lost track of its top and bottom. He decided that the "most neutral" place to start from was its center, and proceeded to pour, stain and swab paint in concentric circles outward. Noland played with half a dozen colors in such target paintings, devising hundreds...
...strike fashions, Krackerjacks (another store) has begun selling red armbands at 25c apiece. Red armbands started as symbol of support for SDS's position last Friday. Aside from their left-associated color, they have that frayed appearance that most revolutionaries usually think of themselves as having. Probably derived from tying a string around your finger to remember something, they are most important for the sense of participation they give the people who wear them. And the importance of feeling participation can't be overrated in something like a strike...