Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...
Though Thornton Wilder is best known as a Pulitzer Prizewinning author of twelve novels and plays (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth), he has also pursued a second career over the course of 30 years. As a teacher, he has Cone from Lawrenceville School to the University of Chicago, and finally this year to Harvard, "continually drawing comparisons, not between institutions, but comparisons between something far more striking and instructive-comparisons between attitudes, tacit assumptions, the thought world of students that I have known throughout the decades of my teachings." At Harvard...
...Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in any handy church, denomination immaterial. It is a day for not shaving (to keep the skin tough), a day for a tea & toast breakfast-nothing more. It is a day of long minutes in a narrow, chilly dressing room, while a manager and trainer swap yarns to break the tension...
...Deep concern" (in diplomatic talk, midway between a cluck-cluck and a posture of anxious finger-wagging) was not otherwise apparent in the President's behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
Beautiful Princess. Fundamentally, it is the story of the girl who marries the wrong man. "Absolutely dazzling . . . with her white skin, golden hair, classical features," Mlle. de Chartres appears at the court of Henry II of France. Everybody thinks her very beautiful, and the Prince of Cleves, a dim young man "prudent beyond his years," becomes her suitor. At her mother's urging, she marries him.Then she meets the Due de Nemours, "the most fascinating man at court," and realizes for the first time what true love is. The Princess has been too well brought up to break...