Word: rainbows
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...Grey Barnard vowed to devote the rest of his life to a great memorial to the men who died in war and to the women who bore them. In the ensuing months the project clarified in his mind as a gigantic arch, over 100 ft. high, with a mosaic rainbow at its summit. Though few people were interested in helping him build it, Sculptor Barnard was not discouraged. His art had given him an international reputation and a comfortable fortune. He retired into his Manhattan studio to complete his arch with his own hands and his own funds...
...responded were a handful of overcoated reporters lugging cameras and the polite directors of the trolley line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures...
Chief members of the Bahama group are "Motorboat,"' a hulking mahogany-colored buck who in one dance wore rainbow-hued feather knickers, and "Pearl of Nassau," a gaudy little darkie who lustily copies the seductive hip-wiggling of Josephine Baker. Attired in scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent...
...laissez faire and to substitute a regulated competition which will operate more justly. If present conceptions of State sovereignty stand in the way of that experiment, it will be a calamity. ... If the National Industrial Recovery Act fails, something more radical will have to be tried. ... It is the rainbow of hope against the black clouds of chaos and if these clouds gather once more, no other democratic recourse will be open to us but the calling of a Constitutional Convention to allow economic planning on a more effective national scale...
...will you think of all the different noises that come to your ears, from, the boom of the bass-viol to the peep of the piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that...