Word: paler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wende and Harry Devlin (D. Van Nostrand; $3.95). Aunt Agatha and Matthew live together in a big old Victorian house. One day, Matthew says he sees a lion, and Aunt Agatha, who knows all about small boys' fantasies, gently tells him: "You laugh at it, and it becomes paler and paler until it disappears." But the lion turns out to be real-which just goes to show, muses Aunt Agatha, that "you never can tell when a little boy has something very important...
...began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses it as "just so much voodoo." To him, a work of art acts best...
...Must Explain." Looking paler than usual as she stood before Quebec's solemn legislators, the Queen voiced a quiet appeal for unity: "Between compatriots, we must explain and present our points of view, without passion, respecting the opinions of others. This country is the meeting place of two great civilizations, each contributing its own genius and quality. These qualities are not contradictory, but complement one another...
...Frontier, the faces of foreign-policy officials were grimmer, paler and wearier than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis last October. White House and State Department spokesmen talked somberly of a sudden shift from thaw to freeze in the cold...
...talks roused little interest at the time, and were soon overshadowed by the melodrama of Edward's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love''-the twice-divorced American socialite, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, growing paler and frailer with the passage of years, have drifted from Portugal to the West Indies, from Manhattan to Paris. Their pastimes have been the trifling ones of showing up at balls, growing roses...