Word: pallidity
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ELLIOT RICHARDSON '41, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, did not fit my image of the Federal bureaucrat. He was neither paunchy nor pallid from sitting too long under fluorescent light, in fact when a trio of Crimson women interviewed him April 6 he sported a snappy pinstripe suit and a fresh tan from an Asp ex ski weekend...
Puffy. To trial goers who expected a flamboyant superspy, Douglas proved to be something of a disappointment. Dressed in a gray business suit, he looked pallid and puffy. He spoke his testimony in a low, dispassionate monotone, using the stilted phraseology of a police blotter. Douglas' flat presentation, though, belied his importance to the case...
...adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...
...desire to treat Picasso as if he had been a master from birth has absurdly inflated them. Thus Alfred Barr once wrote that a Picasso of 1905, Boy Leading a Horse (10), "makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' traditions such as Ingres ... seem vulgar or pallid." Rather, the Blue and Pink periods contain the most accessible images Picasso ever produced-sensitive, mannered and drenched in pathos. Those who have problems decoding the intricate Cubist structure of a 1912 still life have none with the consumptive laundresses, wistful acrobats and delicately shaded cripples who populate Picasso...
...next year. Whether the crowds who come get their money's worth or not, they are likely to be at least as stirred to pleasure or rage as the first-night audience was. They can hardly be more divided than the New York critics, whose judgment ranged from "flat, pallid and actually pointless" (Post) to "stunningly effective" (Daily News...