Word: hues
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...Boston City Regatta on June 19, 1858, tutor Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and later a Harvard president, hurried with another member of the crew team to buy six Chinese silk handkerchiefs of a red hue. The impulsive purchase proved to have enormous repercussions for the color of the uniforms of football players, diplomas and “future Harvard graduate” T-shirts worn by toddlers for years to come. It would start Harvard down a rocky red road that left magenta and garnet by the wayside before settling on the now-ubiquitous crimson as the school?...
...green--the most relaxed status--the system assigns blue, yellow, orange and red as the danger increases and offers guidelines on how to respond to each level. When U.S. intelligence receives reliable information about a new threat, Director Tom Ridge's Homeland Security Council will huddle to determine which hue fits the situation. The color wheel is designed to provide some context to what have so far been one-size-fits-all warnings that make it hard for local law-enforcement officers to know whether they need to merely leave their cell phones by the bed or dispatch armed guards...
...example, work by Josef Albers, internationally known for his “Homage to the Square,” is shown in this exhibition, including “Grey Instrumentation I” (1975). The work is composed of squares within squares of such light hues that the work would fade into the wall if not for its frame. From the range of his colorful squares, Krakow has chosen two works that are almost colorless, which comes as a surprise considering Albers’ long past researching the psychology of color and the change of reading the same hue complemented...
...teaches two popular Core courses—Historical Study A-80, “The Cold War,” and Historical Study B-68, “America and Vietnam 1945-1975,” which he teaches with Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue...
...party the rest of the night away. Try to arrive early, as the line for this popular bar/lounge/nightclub tends to grow quickly and snake around the block. The red interior and glittery chandeliers ooze with Russky decadence, while crimson lighting casts the entire place in an alluring hue. Flash that million-dollar smile as you squeeze your way past the perpetually packed long bar or escape the madness by cozying up in one of the intimate banquettes. As the night draws on, the pick-up scene becomes surprisingly good, especially on the tightly packed dance floor, where scantily clad young...