Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...
...Leon Golub, 37, paints men in pain. His views are frontal and direct: lumpish, lacerated heads with dull yellow catlike eyes. His technique-layer on layer of colored lacquer, chipped, gouged and pumiced-gives the effect of eroded sculpture come hauntingly to life. They resemble certain Romanesque statues Golub saw while on a trip to Italy, but he claims never to "look back" or dissect. "Other painters are tearing man apart, but not me. I'm giving him a monumental image. I want man to survive...
...world's most enduring army of admitted mercenaries is armed with broadswords and halberds and dressed in striped uniforms of blue, red and yellow. But the famed Swiss guards of Vatican City, sworn to defend the Pope to the death, are no mere ceremonial troop; the guardsmen are well trained in hand-to-hand fighting and have an arsenal of Swiss rifles in their quarters in St. Peter's. Last week a pontifical commission gave this elite corps a much-needed streamlining. Recruits were growing hard to find, and there was a rumble of discontent in the ranks...
Myra is not hunting either for a ring or parental approval. She is a natural creature of obedience, stoic when the time comes to pin on the stigmatic yellow badge. She accepts Cassidy's infant foster daughter, his dull and his dangerous cronies, his personal instability as readily as her father's orthodox wisdom. When she finally goes to bed with Cassidy, it is with the air of "This, too, shall pass." For all that, Myra is not a wooden figure. She is at least as believable in her resignation as is Eva in her chin-up tenacity...
...male teachers with the same note. Friends from Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild 1937. One of the best stories in the book, Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?, might draw a bravo from Marquand for its social surgery. At college, blueblooded Fred had got socially iffy Clayton into the best clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred...