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...spent several years painting china for a Paris firm. A strong sense of how well clear colors looked on a light ground kept his later painting from dissolving into the atmospheric ultimates of the Impressionists, though he became as sensitive as any of them to the color effects of sunlight. When Painting china kept his color from dissolving. Renoir painted the summer gaiety of his friends he filled his canvas with flowing light and color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down...
...temperature of the sun's atmosphere has been placed now at about 4500 degrees Centigrade, while the surface, where the sunlight originates, has a solar radiation to which astronomers have given a value of about 6000 degrees Centigrade...
...week it became inexcusable to be ignorant of the fact that there are two men named Smith on the three-man Board. For with certification of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act by the Supreme Court (TIME, April 19), NLRB stepped out from under its cloud into the full sunlight of rank and power...
...saucer-shaped nests. Next dawn a crowd gathered on the Mission grounds, all eyes peering out to sea. Sure enough, sharp at 5:56 a. m., 40 minutes after sunrise, a lowering cloud appeared on the horizon, grew bigger and bigger until it all but blotted out the Mission sunlight, making the air loud with the beat of thousands of narrow wings. Suddenly, while the rest flew on to the canyons beyond, a great segment of the swallow cloud broke off, swooped down on the Mission. Then began Capistrano's annual battle of birds as the swallows fought...
Santayana's words have about them the sunlight of the Eighties. He remembers a time when youth was confident, and the elders bewildered. If his prefatory memories seem to promise what a college magazine can not now well fulfill, they are none the less moving for that. Mr. Hay, in an editorial which celebrates the magazine's revival, is more restrained. Unfortunately he and his contemporaries live in the Thirties. They have before them the example of a preceding 'generation, self-conscious and "young," which preempted the qualities of youth, its postures and certainties, and still clutches them...