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...York University last week, President James Hester had hardly pronounced the name "Robert Strange McNamara" when a dozen N.Y.U. faculty members and 131 violet-robed graduates walked silently up a grassy aisle and out of their commencement exercises to protest U.S. military action in Viet Nam. McNamara smiled slightly and gamely praised "the orderliness" of the students who walked...
Superimposed on a rainbow of colors ranging from short-wave-length violet light at one end to longer-wave-length red at the other, star spectra show a series of characteristic bright and dark vertical lines that indicate the presence of specific chemical elements. In 1868, one such line in a spectrogram of the sun enabled British Astronomer Norman Lockyer to detect the existence of a new element-helium-before it was discovered on the earth...
...terrific that it seems to me as if objects were silhouetted not only m black and white, but in blue red, brown and violet." So wrote Paul Cézanne to Pissarro from the Riviera hill town of L'Estaque. It was the sort ot keen observation of nature that Cézanne captured consummately in oils And last week, eighty years after he finished it, his Houses at L'Estaque sold for $800,000 to a private U.S. collector at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries It was a world's record...
...work cached in Paris and Berlin. Once home, he married his childhood sweetheart, the darkly sensual Bella Rosenfeld, Moscow-educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
...Madame Coco La Fontaine, proprietress of an overstuffed boîte de nuit, Ethel Merman sports pink, green and violet wigs, and shouts insults at anyone who stops by to untangle the plot. Merman's bad temper is understandable, since she has to oversee a series of stale farcical escapades, the last of which has Garner going to the guillotine accused of Van Dyke's murder...