Word: pastel
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Since he was six years old, the expert has been painting--water colors, oils, pencil drawings, even etchings--but his favorite is pastel work. He paints things as he sees them, "realistically," he says, and he hates "modern stuff." "Symbols and bright colors don't make a painting," is his comment--"I'd rather have the paint in a tube...
...clothes and college texts have great sentimental value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office...
...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
Final--Won by Doran (Princeton), 136 pts.; second, Buratti (Rutgers), 130.6 pts.; third, Cant (Pennsylvania), 127.4 pts.; fourth, Pastel (Harvard), 99.8 pts.; fifth, Krotkiewicz (Navy...
...Harvey Pastel, Crimson tankman, whose diving performances have improved with every meet, took a fourth in the high board event with 99.8 points. Morton and Watkins failed to qualify in the 50 and 100. Several other Ulen entries were scratched...