Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really unavoidable. You are constantly agonizing over the answers you made to the last questionnaire, wondering whether an occasional flippancy (absolutely irresistible! I assmume you're acquainted with the inanities that psychologists slip into) is going to make a red light blink on the grading machine and a pink slip pop out. Of course, it turns out not to be that bad. Nonetheless, some ten people were culled out over the training period. In most cases, the wisdom of 'selecting out' was apparent, but a couple were puzzling. The selection board of our program met twice, at four and eleven...
Blue, green, pink and yellow, the endless little boxes are inhabited by people, the song explains, who have gone to college and now have pretty children who go to summer camp and will soon go on to the university, then into little boxes of their...
...mildew has been cleaned off. The old fossil is in the midst of a flourishing rejuvenation. In the first step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue. At the same time, the Institution got a plain-talking new boss, S. Dillon Ripley II, 50, who has set out to erase the impression, "held by educators and laymen alike, that anyone associated with a museum is some sort...
...natural forms that shape his abstractions, to the explicitness with which he builds ambiguity, to how his art is made. Forty-odd drawings in charcoal, pencil, pastel, sumi-ink and Sapolin include classical studies of the '30s, samplings from the "Boudoir" and "Attic" series, sketches for Pink Angel (the painting that reportedly copped $60,000 last year), and 16 new pencil lyrics on his most recurrent theme, women. Through...
...forlorn. Here and there a leaf flutters and a sudden swarm of starlings lights in a tree for a moment, only to take off like a cloud in the bleak sky. And on the grave are a pot of withered chrysanthemums, some carnations and nine sprays of pretty pink roses. The roses are plastic...