Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...
...called an Audible Vision Probe. It is about as big as a short, fattish fountain pen, and a thin wire leads from it to an earphone. At one end of the probe is a small lens, and inside is a photocell that is sensitive to differences of light and shade...
...survey of 1,000 executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
...FEET OF THE COUNTRY by Nadine Gordimer (241 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $3.50), contains two sorts of short stories, those that pack a punch and those that shade a nuance. The hard-hitting tales are about the tensions of race relations, a subject that a South African writer like 32-year-old Nadine Gordimer (The Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge...
During the Indo-Chinese war, when the countryside was invaded by African troops and by a Foreign Legion containing more Germans than French, the garrison towns were filled with a polychromic and polyglot collection of youngsters born of every shade of father. The Eurasian population quadrupled, and a new word had to be coined: Africasians. Many girls with catholic tastes produced several children of mixed blood-each one a different color. Simply by bringing her baby for a cursory examination, a Vietnamese mother could get a "technical certificate of white race" that entitled the youngster to free care and education...