Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wing like a plucked and grumpy rooster. Other artists of Klee's time, a Bonnard or a Matisse, could and did summon up with a few brush strokes a whole universe of specific experiences-the golden, fuzzy weight of a peach, the glaze of china, the density and pink warmth of an odalisque's leg. Klee was not interested; he abstracted, and made ideograms. Botanical Theater, 1924-34, is aptly named, for the ceremonious dance of leaf and bloom, formal as an Islamic tile, stands to real plants as puppets do to real people. Yet the plants...
...critical mass of the human brain is the cortex, a wrinkled grayish pink covering. It is the seat of such processes as thinking, judgment, speech and that tricky blessing, memory. According to D.S. Halacy Jr., an experienced popularizer of science, if the cortex were ironed flat, it would approximate the size of a newspaper page. Whether regular or tabloid size remains anybody's guess. But then, as Halacy makes totally clear, all the really important things about the brain are mysterious...
Wally Chao '72 of Mather House has won his choice of one dozen lollipops, a purple crayon or a pink pen in the CRIMSON children's book quiz. He answered 631/3 out of 75, plus getting the bonus question. Honorable mention also goes to the Welsh Triad (the Owl, the Unicorn and the Griffin) and to Miss Jansson's fifth grade class at the Summer St. School, Lynnfield...
...Pink, you fool...
Morning is about freshness, birth, starting new. Aurora, goddess of dawn, advances from a distant pearl-pink horizon, and a newborn baby lies squirming on a carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes