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Every autumn, the hills of Vermont turn into earth-toned peacocks, sporting a spectacular array of red, yellow and orange leaves. From afar, the hills look dappled, warm with a brown and purple and reddish hue. The closer you get, the more you see the outbursts of color...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Autumnal Adventure: Foliage in Vermont | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

More concretely, that Monday The Crimson chose to devote three full pages to the hockey team. That's more coverage than any news story has received in the past four years. And there was no hue...

Author: By Charlest T. Kurzman, | Title: Pointing the 'Big Finger' | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...perhaps Harvard could afford to be less blatant in the color department--its problems were solved long ago, when Crimson ousted Magenta as the official school hue...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: One Brief Shining Moment | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...Moral Life of Children. Once again, Coles gets very little out of an extraordinary child who smiled serenely at those who spat on her and prayed each night for her tormentors. His principal reaction is bewildered admiration. A Mississippi black woman tells her daughter that people of every hue are a mixture of good and bad, and the good fights the bad in politics all the time. Coles is again deeply impressed: "Such a moral and theological analysis of political life is worthy of Reinhold Niebuhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries The Moral Life of Children by Robert Coles | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...over abstractions, White has been dismissed in some quarters as a miniaturist a little too long on charm and short on substance. It is true that big ideas seldom engaged him unless they could be broken down into parts that made clear and common sense. His response to the hue and cry for loyalty oaths during the Communist witch hunts in the early 1950s was typical. He ignored ideology and compressed the body politic into a single form: "If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Master of Luminous Prose E.B. White: 1899-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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