Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the neat sign that says "Northrop Institute of Technology," the pale green buildings look like any factory in bustling (aerospace) Inglewood, adjoining Los Angeles. This is fitting, for N.I.T. is the only U.S. campus spawned by an industrial corporation as an in-plant cram school and then successfully converted to a much respected nonprofit college, whose graduates now number...
Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...
...Pale and glum, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan listened in silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting...
...Place de la Concorde now gleams a pale ochre; the massive Corinthian columns of the Madeleine glow a soft pink; the Louvre no longer tattles of neglect. Years of recorded tourist history ("Ronald loves Irma," "Vincenza e Giorgio," "Stan from Council Bluffs. 82nd Airborne. 1945"). scribbled in the stubborn grime, is being erased by a soap that removes dirt but leaves a protective mineral covering on the stone. More than 2.300 buildings and monuments have been washed...
...tells the story of 90 moribund minutes in the life of a featherbrained Parisian canary (Corinne Marchand) who has just begun to peck the plum of show-business success. As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards for her, and the fortuneteller cannot quite conceal the fatal fact...