Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were plenty of other crusades-for woman suffrage, against child labor and the yellow peril, etc. (The Journal gracefully took no credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...
This curious mixture of old and now is curiously resolved in Jerusalem. An ancient city, it has aura of repose and settled dignity. Built entirely of a time defying, beige and yellow tinted stone, the newest buildings seem as old as the oldest, and the most ancient houses, no older than the now. And when the city is seen from the heights of Mount Scopus, sleeping under the brilliant summer sun, the vision is breathtaking...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
...that generations of theologians debated the question of whether Adam and Eve had navels, and in the 18th Century were especially concerned over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very day the tomb was opened a cobra ate the chief explorer's canary...
Dismissing pertinent charges by howling "yellow journalism" may seem sufficient to the Council, but the student body will not be satisfied by such tacties. The Council should take immediate action on the report drawn up by the "informal" (incidentally, democratically elected) house committee. Why is it necessary for the Student Council to organize a committee of its own and spend six weeks reviewing the problem when a committee truly representative of the student body and with no vested interest to serve has already done the job? If the Student Council intends to serve the students of Harvard, it must...