Word: prism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil's Candido Portinari takes a more traditional approach to the subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...juvenile leads are handsome and debonair, while Dame Edith Evans makes a formidable Lady Bracknell and Mar garet Rutherford a comical Miss Prism...
...tolerance is not the realization that there are values and goals other than their own, ones worthy of respect, indulgence, and protection. To them tolerance ends when its products approach views contrary to their own. They view every issue, be it cinema or what have you, through the same prism, a prism which blots out all but one consideration: racial tolerance...
Breaks on a prism of dissolving clay
...Prism Exhausts. Menzel does not claim to explain the exact air conditions that produce each flying saucer. The original light may come from almost any bright source, and it may follow all sorts of complicated paths, with different results each time. Sometimes the reported saucers have "glowing exhausts." Menzel believes that these "exhausts" are related to the colors seen through a prism. The conspicuous red, always seen at one end of the image, looks like a jet of red flame...