Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote poetry (passably), studied acting, and even performed (middling) in a few TV shows and summer-stock plays. Charming in her shyness, stammering ever so slightly (a holdover...
General Karim Kassem's revolution will be one year old on July 14, and sweltering Baghdad last week was alive with preparations for the great day. Triumphal arches rose in the streets, and a new Iraqi flag-red, black, green and yellow-was going up on lampposts...
...there was little festive mood in the yellow-walled Defense Ministry. There sat Premier Kassem, who had let the Communists in his entourage rise to power in order to prevent Nasserites from taking over his revolution. Now at last he saw the need to prevent the Communists from taking over the revolution in turn, and sought to create a third group in Iraq loyal to him instead of to Cairo or Moscow. Against the advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those...
Jidda to Mecca. When his day of departure finally arrived, Ahmed set out on the road through the mountains clogged with thousands of pilgrims ("White, brown, black, yellow people, all moving together"). As they streamed along the road together-a few in cars and buses, some on mules, but most on foot-a steady chant rose in unison from the column: "Labbaika Allahumma labbaika! [Here we are, Lord, here...
Architect-Designer K. I. Rozdestvensky, who designed the Russian pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair and the Russian exhibit in Brussels last summer, has set the tone of the show with a giant, 54-ft. curving aluminum fin: a slice of the universe, crisscrossed with red and yellow traceries of satellites, surrounded by full-scale models of the buglike Sputnik I and the heavy cone that carried the dog Laika into orbit. In the background rise four 48-ft. triangular columns, showing heroic Russians more than twice life-size over legends such as: THERE IS NO ILLITERACY...