Word: palely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater antagonism between the races today than at any time during the great Civil Rights crusade," the mayor said. Many southerners who had embraced moderate groups like Martin Luther Kings Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he explained, were turned off by the "revolutionaries" like Carmichael who operated "outside the pale...
...reality has surpassed the imitation. It is because Miss Garson's satire renders her targets immune to further burlesque by grasping--just once, and fleetingly--all the obvious uglinesses of American politics without giving a sweet damn for what they point to. If her wry defloration of ideology is pale beside Brecht's, her portrayal of convention-hall mores does not begin to approach Mencken's Murray & Co. have slightly humanized a drastically inhumane play by virtue of taste and skillful joining, but the blood-spoor lingers on the air. MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both...
Color photographs of the lunar surface beneath a deep black sky confirmed the findings of Surveyor I that the moon was grey. "The grey varies in shade from pale to very dark," said U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Eugene Shoemaker, "but it appears to be still basically all grey...
Window VIII and Two Heads have a very special significance. The first was done as a memorial to Malcolm X, shows a shirtless Negro boy, arms raised in a prayerful gesture, staring sadly through the window. The second portrays a beautiful but pale and cold Negro woman with a Negro man peering at her from an orange-colored door. Asked if she were meant to be part white, Tooker replies, "Yes, none of us are pure." His mother's family is descended from 16th century Cuban Creoles...
...Lisa. Leonardo painted her some 29 years earlier, when he had only recently completed his apprenticeship in the Florentine studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. The technique, while accomplished, is stiffer than that of his later works. Yet Ginevra, a curly-haired blonde with narrow, almost Mongolian eyes, a stern, pale mouth and alabaster skin, is clearly one of Leonardo's ladies. Like La Gioconda, she is ambivalent, as cold as she is beautiful, and as repellent as she is alluring...