Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimist," Lurçat says, "and my tapestries are optimists." His designs are filled with riotous color and movement; flocks of flitting butterflies, bounding animals and forests of flying leaves, all done in brilliant reds, blues, mustard yellows and jet black. Sometimes the optimism comes out with a reverse twist. One of his best works is a large (210 sq. ft.) affair with an evil-looking creature covered with yellow and black feathers facing a gaily prancing deer-and a legend: "So you will better understand unhappiness [which] is too stupid to exist...
...bureau in Brazil has been inhabited by one White after another. First there was Bill White, now in TIME'S Washington bureau, who established the White dynasty in Brazil. Next, in April 1950, came Frank White Jr. (no kin to Bill), who used the same office, same yellow jeepster, same office staff, same apartment, and same maid. Finally, at the beginning of this year, Art White (no kin to either) moved into the same background, inherited the same perquisites of office and began hearing the same jokes about men named White that had beleaguered Frank...
Serious musicians and the president of the Society of Friends of the Concertgebouw were deemed expert enough to judge the power and precision of the grinders, their genius with operatic potpourris, popular marches, sentimental fluff. The judges toured the pierement line in a black-and-yellow carriage, while thousands of Amsterdammers jostled to watch and listen. The first inspection was, for exterior shine; next came a look at the innards. Finally, while the crowds cheered their favorites and mocked at breakdowns, the judges cocked an ear to the music and an eye to grinding technique...
...brightly colored drinking fountain that looked vaguely like some giant metallic orchid-8 ft. high, with flowing petals and a stippled yellow, blue and white enamel finish. There was a high spout for adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them...
...beat the heat," said Thomas H. Stearns '53 yesterday. He hid a yellow map in his carburetor...