Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Justice. While some Senators could probably delay the Goldberg confirmation by filibustering, Senate reaction is generally favorable to the nomination. The question is whether, even at the end of his reign, Johnson is willing to place his domes tic leadership on trial again. At stake is the ideological complexion that the Supreme Court will assume for many years to come...
HORROR stories of the grimmest complexion filtered through the week concerning the imminent disintegration of the HRO's impending Beethoven Ninth concert. The Choirs, supposedly stripped of their talents by the reorganization of the Glee Club, were said to be less than protean musicreaders, and in general hopelessly inadequate to the almost insuperable vocal difficulties of Beethoven's masterwork. And so, as I entered the hall I remembered Robert Scott's famous lament at the end of his diary, written as the merciless Antarctic finally buried him: "We took risks; we knew we took them...
From the moment the curtain rises, we know this fragile play is in good hands. The set, designed by Donald Soule, fills he theatre with the atmosphere of imminent despair; the room in which the players will see their dreams shatter is towering in size and dark in complexion. The lighting has the bleakness of doom...
...instructorial staff headed by Frank Freidel, professor of History, brings a white complexion to black subjects. Says Wanda Williams, '72: "As the course now stands it is hardly relevant to black students because we're still seeing history through the white man's eyes." Adds one junior: "The real problem is that Freidel devotes all his time to refuting prejudices his audience does not hold. The lecture series might better be called, 'Negro Heroes I Have Known'--it consists of black equivalents of the George Washington cherry tree tale...
Freidel was asked about the charge that the course seems to some to have a white complexion...