Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman of Yale University's Department of Design), Albers considers all his own work experimental. By painting squares within squares of varying colors, he achieves an endless variety of odd, beautiful and sometimes disturbing effects. "I push my colors," he explains soberly. "I want to push a green so it looks red." When students complain that to "push" colors Albers limits himself to the coldly unemotional, the artist replies with a thin smile that "emotions are usually prejudices...
...Saturday for the record books -filled with screeching runs and moaning fumbles, with sad upsets and the wild enthusiasm of undergraduate loyalties. But on Sunday, fans who wanted to see football at its best turned out to see the pros. From Green Bay, Wis. to New York's Polo Grounds, stadiums rocked to the sound of big men butting heads for cash. In the fall of 1954, a large part of the U.S. public is learning what dedicated sportsmen have been saying for years: that Saturday's college boys play a game, while Sunday's pros practice...
Under the benevolent paternalism of Commissioner Bell, every team in the league encourages its players to engage in such extracurricular activities, against the inevitable day when they will be too old and battered to butt heads for a living. The Green Bay Packers' former great end, Don Hutson, owns the town's finest bowling alleys; the New York Giants' Kyle Rote peddles insurance and packaged kitchens...
Soul of a Sophomore. This week in Green Bay, the Lions again tested their habit, and Layne, as usual, made all the difference. Passing for two touchdowns, and running for a third, he beat the Packers 21-17. With only four games left to go (including a Thanksgiving-day rematch with the Packers), the Lions need only one more victory to sew up their third straight Western Conference championship...
Beyond line-up switches, Ulen had his men "up" for the Green. Backstroker Don Mulvey broke Dartmouth's pool record to take his event. Marv Sandler swam the fastest individual medley race of his career and won it. Meanwhile Hawkins finished between the Green's Glover and Hust for a second...