Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...
Harvard Club of Sant Louis; Harvey Pastel, Kirkwood...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...
...from mad, wire-worky diagrams to basket-textured abstractions. Some, like the Twittering Machine, had an odd, disembodied relation to mechanical objects. Some looked like primitive drawings by U. S. Indians. Many were painted on coarse burlap, resembled intricate tattered rugs and tablecloths. All had a look of quiet, pastel-shaded insanity. The show was posthumous: short, sharp-faced Artist Klee had died at his Swiss home four months before. It was also posthumous in another sense. To the red-cheeked, goose-stepping Nazis who after 1933 scrubbed individualism from Germany's art galleries, Paul Klee had been...
...Theatre premieres in slacks and sport clothes. De Mille, when not busy on a picture, wears a trim business suit which he dons in his dressing room on reaching the theatre. When he is busy, he goes in a costume of tan, high-laced field boots, dark riding breeches, pastel green jacket with vest to match and a dark green shirt. He invariably instructs the announcer to apologize to the audience for his workaday appearance, despite the fact that spectators are stunned by the getup...