Word: scarlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris flea market, Fleur Fenton Cowles once bought a golden pin shaped like a swallow's wing, which she thought "a symbol of flight, excitement, beauty." Last week, as Fleur's new monthly magazine Flair spread its wings, a reproduction of the pin adorned its bright scarlet cover. To Editor Cowles, it was a moment of high excitement and typographical beauty. But more dispassionate observers considered the maiden flight hardly as breathtaking as all that...
...Brain. Childe Rosie progresses through Italy to the accompaniment of a mighty lurching, whanging and screeching of the prose mechanism. Anybody with half an ear would call for a garage stop, but Author Llewellyn doggedly goes on piling up mileage. His princess does not get angry: she "looked through scarlet lace." A soldier does not feel regret: "hands were wringing in his brain." Snowy's leg is not suddenly weak: it goes to "laughing gristle." Other Llewellynisms that would flood any ordinary carburetor: "A quick thrust of pity alchemised her feeling to a silt of motherly impatience"; "she rolled...
...Charles Dickens' alternate periods of elation and depression were blended with sadomasochism, the marks of which run "like a scarlet thread through all his writings" (especially in the unbridled violence of A Tale of Two Cities...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...