Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest winner was bland enough: Freedom's Futile Flight. A few of the other, somewhat more imaginative entries: Red Airing (second prize), Ping Pong Express, Tricky Dickie's Chicken Ship, Neville Chamberlain Express, Yellow Bird, Judas Jet, Air Farce One, Asian Flew, DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw and Go Mao, Pay Later...
...made numerous legal attempts to get married before ending up convicts in our yellow-striped uniforms in work camp. I had studied East German marriage documents with members of the East Berlin Academy of Sciences where I was working on my MIT dissertation, had even poured over the legal text on Marriage Law (Ehegesetzbuch). Elizabeth and I had gone to the socialist marriage bureau in the East, tried to get a proxy marriage in this country, and investigated getting married in the American embassy in Poland and having it validated by East Germany. But the biggest blow came...
...named Kermit but called "boy"-has the unsparing, unsentimental eye of his age. He can see that Uncle Floyd, though he may sometimes look like a picturesque cowhand from a TV serial and sometimes (with that yellow helmet) like a bug, is really a stupid, selfish, kindly old man. When a telegram announces the death of Aunt Viola in Nebraska, old man and boy take off in the trailer, precariously hitched to an ancient Maxwell. On their way to the home place by the Platte River, they pick up two oligosyllabic polycopulative young people named Stanley...
...this is the lesson of Maurice. Salvation can only be won through a personal involvement that cares nothing for the unthinking yellow-grey morality of suburban conformity. And in ways, that is the lesson of all Forster's moral philosophy. In 1939, he wrote an essay called What I Believe, and what he believed in was Personal Relations. He had an individualist's fear of drowning in the teeming masses. So the solution was to be Personal, individual to individual, beyond politics, beyond class, beyond morality. That is what he meant when he wrote...
...Reconditioned and repainted in such unbureaucratic colors as pink, yellow and purple, old parking meters are being sold in increasing numbers for use in offices and homes as timing devices, coin banks or simply the latest examples of pop sculpture...