Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University made an extremely unwise move in deciding to drop its appeal against the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). President Bok now appears foolish after investing Harvard's reputation and moral weight against unionizing Harvard's more than 3500 pink-collar workers...
...stuff. His paint is thick without being rhetorical. The surface develops by addition, sometimes over months, and contains an extraordinary range of nuances both in color and in texture: tremulous depths of pinkish-gray held within the sallow planes of a face, innumerable gradations of Venetian red and salmon pink in the body of a nude, rescued from mere allusiveness by the vehement drawing of shadow that gives Kossoff's work its tonal framework. Its solidity is relieved, almost involuntarily, by the whipping of skeins of pigment fallen directly from the brush, which work as a form of counterdrawing, lifting...
...member HUCTW will become the largest union in private higher education. In addition, it is the latest successful organizing drive to capitalize on the unique concerns of a "pink-collar" workforce, like Harvard's quasi-professional, mostly female support staff...
Schorner has just opened his own rose-pink confection of a bakery-cafe, Patisserie Cafe Didier, in Washington's Georgetown, where chocolate cake ($2.50 a slice) and cream-puff swans ($2 each) are among the offerings. "Desserts sell better when they are beautiful," he notes, "so decorating is important...
...course Harvard has a legal right to appeal Judge Harmatz's decision, just as the union had a legal right to organize and recruit the University's pink-collar employees. Thankfully, the staff position recognizes this, but goes on to make a dubious claim that the University has no moral justification for an appeal...