Word: overbright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gloomy, tobacco-juice effect. But people were used to it, and found their way about in the sunless brown caves of contemporary painting as readily as bats. The "transparent atmosphere" that Manet had striven for and achieved was blinding to them. They saw it as an arbitrary patchwork of overbright colors...
...closing, the choruses combined for three excerpts from Bach's B Minor Mass. As might have been expected, the Radcliffe sound often swamped Amherst--despite the ladies' obvious unfamiliarity with some passages. In addition, Paine Hall's overbright acoustics effectively smudged the counterpoint. The total impression was more of an impromptu singing party than a concert finale. ROSERY M. SIMON
...book, Witness, Chambers describes the man whom he knew only as "Felix," and who knew him as "Bob," thus: "I did not particularly like Felix. He looked like an average young fellow, seemingly simple, not overbright." Many times, in the late '305, Chambers met Felix on a Washington or Baltimore street corner, gave him documents to be photographed with a Leica purchased by the Communist underground. For such work, Felix had been trained in Moscow, where he traveled on a forged U.S. passport. Once Chambers went to Felix's Baltimore home, but he had only a vague impression...