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...Lincoln himself provided a color guide when in 1859 he sent an autobiographical sketch to Jesse W. Fell describing himself as "in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh weighing on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes-No other marks or brands recollected...
Harvard's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps reflects this rapid change in the Air Force's complexion. Over the last three years the University has graduated only three cadets who entered flight training. The same number will probably do so during the next three years. Air Force ROTC at Harvard is now directed toward the realistic goal of training bureaucrats...
...like an anagram or a code phrase devised by aliens, vaguely but discernibly inventive. Her hair is naturally blonde, yet it is so impossibly pale, so much closer to moonlight than to anything found on any ordinary human head, that it seems the product of a prop department. Her complexion, clear as ice and the untroubled color of early dawn, hints of a makeup artist. Her eyes, too, momentarily blue, then grey, then aquamarine, then green, look to be explicable only if they are not eyes at all but varying sets of colored contact lenses. Everything about her suggests that...
Keating is an affable man with a snowy thatch of hair and a ruddy complexion that he cultivates relentlessly under sun and sun lamp. He was born in Lima, N.Y., in 1900, the son of a grocer. He got his bachelor's degree at the University of Rochester at 19, taught high school Latin and won a law degree at Harvard in 1923. He built a profitable practice in Rochester as a trial lawyer, and in 1946 won at his first try for public office: Congressman from New York's 40th Congressional District. As a member...
...excitement of the Batch concerto enlivened the concluding Mozart Symphony 29 in A Major, K. 201. Delicate and graceful, the strings were also plump in the right spots; and the horn solos of Glen Sproul put muscle behind the piece's fair complexion...