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...fact remains that the H.S.U. is the most successful political group now active in the College. However pinkish may be the sources of its energy, the energy is there, and just at present it is directed toward achieving something vital to everyone" peace. Smaller organizations cannot hope to block up that energy, or erase its coloring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUERILLA WARFARE | 4/17/1940 | See Source »

...small exhibition at the Neumann-Willard Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Success! | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada has no radical organization in its entire 110,000 square miles. There is no political movement of even slightly pinkish tinge. . . . The law-makers are cattlemen, miners, lawyers, business and professional men and there hasn't been the slightest whisper of radicalism from one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: One Sound State | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish New Republic. But Editor Bliven's was only one of many voices that have lately been raised against the Nation's most prominent publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Seattle Settlement | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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