Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little man in a yellow shirt stands at the door and hands patrons a card which reads: "I will not by my own free will or under duress reveal the ending of Diabolique." Don't sign...
Last week bigwig psychiatrists from across the U.S. converged on Ann Arbor to help dedicate a monument to the proposition that more can and must be done for such children: the Children's Psychiatric Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. Though the six-story, yellow brick building was barely finished, 30-odd children from the ages of six to twelve had been moved in. The unit's capacity: 75. That is sizable for a children's mental hospital, though many thousands of children in the U.S. need psychiatric hospital care...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome background for something, but this is not what he intended, any more than the makers of the medieval tapestries meant merely to adorn palaces. It seems highly doubtful that such art as Rothko's will some day seem as meaningful as the tapestries, yet it is possible. Such paintings...
...organized things too well. Scared away by warnings that hotel space was scant, too many fans stayed home with their television sets. But those who did come found a unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from afar (in the words of the Olympic Oath) "for the honor of our country and for the glory of sport...
...branch of the U.N. that has really accomplished things is WHO (World Health Organization). It has successfully fought yaws in Africa, yellow fever in Latin America, leprosy all over Asia, TB in India and Europe. Last week WHO got its strongest testimonial to date: Russia, which walked out in 1949, walked back in. Typically, the Bolsheviks refused to pay $3,800,000 in back dues, offered to settle for about onefourth...