Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, modern major-league baseball ended a senseless tradition when Jackie Robinson crossed its color line. Long before that, other Negroes had fought their way to the top in the prize ring and football and run off with track & field laurels. The one big competitive field still closed to them in sport is bowling, ruled by the autocratic American Bowling Congress, whose membership (estimated at 1,500,000) is limited to "white males" only. Last week, Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein of New York rolled one right down the middle against...
...Train fails to see, however that he and/or the clubs have no moral right to judge the merit of a person or his ability to fit into a given social situation by such artificial and worthless criteria as those of race and color. If these discriminating persons consider themselves reasonable and intellectually sound, or if they think that maintenance of their right to discriminate is an assertion of sound thinking or intellectual independence, they are deluding themselves...
Painting space, Leonid thinks, is not half so tricky as it's cracked up to be: "It's a question of color and line. You make your objects very bright in the foreground and not at all bright on the horizon...
...except Nishida could describe the subjects of his art, and he declines to do so. His paintings are made up of solid masses of pure color, often applied with big brushes which he wields like two-handed swords. "My heart sinks," confessed his father last week, "to see the boy take a whole tube of color and squeeze it on to canvas. They cost at least 300 yen. But he knows how to get proper effects...
Curiously, Marin's own pictures are self-expressive and abstract. He usually lets the straight lines and angles that are the scaffolding of his compositions stand in the finished work, and prefers a careless-seeming blot of color to a smooth wash. "The very doing" of a picture, he believes, is part of what the picture has to say, so he makes his paintings look like works-in-progress...