Word: colourful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against him, much as the Jewish origins of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 only further enraged an Israeli public disenchanted with his Middle East policy. During Young's recent trip to Africa, the Kenyan Daily Nation argued that Young is "sadly mistaken in believing that his colour can possibly be his chief credential for making an African tour successful. That is worse than naive idealism--it is a tragic delusion in this age of complex power relations...
...many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold, and he seemed not insensible of the splendid appearance he made...
...Their colour is a diabolic...
...chairman of the ASCR, justifies the committee's recommendation that IBM not be required to disclose its sales in South Africa because he says the company has a good record of employing blacks there. But because of the apartheid laws, blacks can only be employed beneath a "colour bar"; they may not work above certain levels in industry. This allows the white minority to keep blacks out of positions of authority from which they could perhaps seek to change the apartheid system...
...Bliss, 83, English composer and Master of the Queen's Musick; at his home in London. Bliss startled staid English audiences after World War I with his chromaticism and unusual instrumental combinations in works like Rout (for ten instruments and a soprano who sings nonsense syllables) and A Colour Symphony. He later wrote film scores, notably for the 1939 H.G. Wells' fantasy Things to Come, ballet music (including The Lady of Shalott for the San Francisco Ballet) and an opera, The Olympians, with a libretto by J.B. Priestley. Named court composer in 1953, the musical equivalent of poet...