Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for history. By way of entertainment, the picture offers Esther poised in classical scanties by the side of a lotus pool. And in case Esther isn't enough, there is a herd of elephants painted blue, green, yellow, lavender and gamboge...
Miller, in his green checked jacket and yellow necktie, has also freed theology from its traditional dullness. On a wager with Professor harry Levin in the late 1940's, Miller began and undergraduate course on Christian theologians. He and his class discuss men from Augustine to Kicrkegard, but hardly in the usual way. To illustrate the meaning of the essence of God, Miller drew not on books but on baseball, and to show relative good and evil, the red Sox and the yankees were his illustrations...
...construction drive has revealed the Venezuelans' exciting talent for vivid modern architecture. Their use of color-lemon yellow, white, red, and ultramarine blue-outdoes the native bougainvillea and the bright toucan birds. Red-earth gashes in the surrounding azure mountains promise more to come...
...protected against polio. The method: Hela cells (easily grown cancer cells) are mixed with polio virus, an indicator dye and a blood sample. Incubated at 36° centigrade for a week, the mixture is then examined for color. If the child is fully protected, the mixture will be yellow; if not, red. The new method, say the Louisville doctors, is cheaper ($25) than previous tests, requires less time than tests using monkeys, and will enable many more U.S. medical centers to determine the effectiveness of anti-polio vaccination drives...
...they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows with red and yellow ocher and pipe-clay white. It is sure to bring rain...