Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter Eyuboglu spent three student years in Paris, came home to paint pale echoes of Raoul Dufy. In the last decade, he has spent more and more time in the villages of Anatolia, found much inspiration in Turkish folk art. The delicate brushwork and preference for pastel colors that marked his European apprenticeship have given way to strongly accentuated designs, contrasting glittery masses against vivid backgrounds (see opposite page...
...resigned from RFC on the day the loan was granted (to become a Lustron executive). Young and his wife (who wore the Truman Administration's original mink coat when she was a White House stenographer) now operate a swank Florida motel known to its clientele as "the Royal Pastel Mink Auto Court...
Dwight Eisenhower has been heard to refer to his oval, pastel-green White House office as "the maelstrom." Like other Presidents before him, he chafes at the number of visitors and routine chores (including some 200 signatures a day) that drain presidential time and energy away from the task of setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant...
...direction, also by Tutchings, has been more successful than his acting. The play an adaptation of Henry James' Washington Square, has added more color to James' pastel novella. The people are stronger, and Catherine undergoes a more major change. Tutchings has handled this well. The lighting, costumes, and Miss Hills' own ability all help to make her metamorphosis from a pathetic wallflower to a determined woman believable, despite the quickness of her change...
What makes TIME feel that the pulpits of America are immune to infiltration of Communistic ideology? The halo surrounding some of our pulpits is a lovely pastel pink. The teachings of a social gospel present a most fertile ground for any liberal preacher to lean toward the "left." Remember, the church teaches that "none is infallible." This also includes the clergy...