Word: sienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assumes that the student always does some taking in and some giving out. He absorbs, memorizes, digests the lectures and reading material. This he is expected to remember for specific examinations. This he is spoon-fed. This, in the long run, is what he forgets. Who was Catherine of Sienna, and on what day did Hitler burn the Reichstag? The particulars are soon lost. What is "left over," what remains, is the ability to make accurate generalizations, to get to the heart of an issue and make comprehensive deductions from any given set of facts. To retain this...
...variance, Artist Segall's work, like himself, is meticulous, disciplined, treats trouble tranquilly. His paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
When Haller picked up the crumpled bit of down and feathers, he saw that it was a male, with a yellow throat with raw sienna, a yellowish olive patch on the back, a brownish hue on the flanks, a gull-blue back. He had never seen a warbler quite like it before. Later he bagged a female of the same species, sent both birds to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which, he knew, had specimens of every known bird in the U.S. But the Smithsonian birdmen could find nothing to match Haller's warblers...