Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Viet Nam from the family's hometown of Hué. He has his own network of secret police, holds sway over the government's provincial chiefs in the region. Reputedly owner of vast tracts of land, he is wealthy, contributed heavily to the construction of a new cathedral in Hue where Brother Ngo Dinh Thuc is now Archbishop...
...problem actor is Cousin Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone of the book...
...John Hersey's The Wall. Author Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...
...Hearst series went on to attack the small (but disciplined) band of young men responsible for writing the statement, and to announce: "Red hue seen in Cuba peace plea." Meanwhile, the New York Times' sober analyst Arthur Krock, based his attack not on innuendo, but on his own concept of the pertinent facts...
Under the headline "Red Hue Seen in Peace Plea," another story in the series notes that "a spot check of (The House Committee on Un-American Activities) files showed numorous entries on the records of some of the more prominent signers of the petition...