Word: violet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Followed by an impromptu violet spotlight and exploding flashbulbs, she glided down the aisle of a packed Pudding auditorium. A pianist stumbled through "Days of Wine and Roses." The crowd hooted." "This is crazy...marvelous...unabelievable..."she mumbled. Her father, Class of '31, was at the foot of the stage, and she fell into Lis arms crying "Have you ever...
Each in its way makes a contrast between worldly and moral achievement. In A Promising Career, an inhumanly professional bachelor pursues his ambitions until his mistress, a Venus' fly trap passing as a violet, involves him in a scandal, ruins his career, sees him exiled to Ghana, where he hits the bottle, hits bottom, and discovers that he is human after all. In The Clever One, a successful, coldly unlikable lawyer meets an aging courtesan who marks him down for marriage and alimony, then sweet-cheats him at every turn until he finds her out, throws...
...praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap, and scornful of straight lines (see opposite page...
...airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane was lost; the pilot was rescued...
Died. Lady Violet Astor of Hever, 75, wife of Lord Astor, owner of the Times of London, who spent her life as one of Britain's most energetic social-work volunteers until two years ago, when she and her husband left England for good to escape Britain's heavy death duties; after a long illness; at their Côte d'Azur villa in Pégomas, France...