Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years tall, dark-eyed, strikingly chic Chicago socialite Buell Mullen crusaded for an art new-fashioned to fit a chromium, copper and aluminum age and developed a method of painting on metal. Now she has only enough war metal on hand to see her through this year. A mural commissioned by International Business Machines has been shelved for the duration, because neither she nor the company cares to ask for a priority on the necessary steel. She can still paint on silver and gold, but hopes technological strides will release less expensive materials...
...solve this puzzle, it has been suggested that at least one night a week be set aside when all Freshmen can eat together in one of the House dining halls, in addition to a Freshman sports program being organized over and above all other intra-mural athletics. George A. Saxton '44 has been placed in charge of a committee to investigate Freshman affairs...
Artist Nicolas draws and paints on his colored glass as freely as if he were making a mural. Starting with a small preliminary sketch, Nicolas elaborates it into a large cartoon drawn on paper, complete as a blueprint, with the shape and size of each colored pane and its surrounding line of lead carefully indicated. Artist Nicolas writes a number on each to tell his glazier assistants which of 500 shades of colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns...
...result is a massive mural of foreign-colony life, a gallery of China hands, from those who are a little short of the worst (such as a missionary who hopes the Japanese will win and who tries to keep two Jewish doctors out of a hospital) to those who are a little better than the best (such as a saintly, slightly daffy old English divine who, as the Yuletide bombs come shrieking down, magnificently murmurs: "Beware the Japanese bearing gifts"). Also included are the not-so-interesting love affairs of a few Occidental young men and women with names like...
...York Central officials estimate that in one year the mural will be seen some 240 million times...