Word: osculum
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...heat. There was all the excitement of a library reading room at high noon: teen-agers hunched in corners, muttering over dog-eared textbooks or stacks of index cards. The prevailing sense of humor was as old as the Roman hills: bantering buttons with such slogans as DA MI OSCULUM LATINE LOQUOR (Kiss me, I speak Latin) and ATLAS IS TOO STONED TO CARE...
Thanks, TIME, for making my wish come-true with that beautiful reproduction of Osculum Silence by Jules Olitski, second prizewinner in painting now being seen at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition [Nov. 3]. When I saw that big, throbbing painting on the opening night of the exhibition, I thought to myself, "How I'd like to have a good reproduction of that!" So once again I am grateful to TIME and to its ART section...
...Osculum si possim...
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