Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes...
Neither Harry Truman nor anybody else could give firm guarantees on South Korea, or any other area in Eastern Asia. The anti-Communist position was flimsier than the grass roof of a Korean house; the best that could be argued was that ECAid might keep off the Red rain until stronger protection was built...
...first time such a major group of U.S. educators had called for the total exclusion of Communists from teaching. The recommendation was not made without reservation: "At the same time we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers. The whole spirit of free American education will be subverted unless teachers are free to think for themselves...
There was always something odd about Edward John Burra. His classmates laughed when they caught him daubing red paint on the noses of classical plaster casts at art school, but they watched in awed wonder when he took to drinking champagne out of ashtrays and washing his face in film developer. When Burra's health forced him to quit school and moderate his prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place...
Burra is Britain's most successfully shocking surrealist. At 44, he has done the sets and costumes for four ballets and an opera, consistently delighted his tight, bright circle of admirers with such fantasies as Procession (see cut), in which evil red eyes peep from a paraded kettle. "See?" Burra says, "It's going to boil over and swamp them all. The beggar is getting out of the way-he hasn't a chance...