Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
...image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each...
...indulges himself with writing like this (describing the sources of his enthusiasm for Eisenhower): "it had been decreed by all things first bringing me to this political scene--all the untidy but sovereign miscellany of one's own convictions and commitments, granite beliefs and fragile fancies, clean perceptions and gray illusions." Like the magazine he's worked for too long, he insists, in his style, on making life out to be better than...
...wheeler-and-dealer, a solidly built man of average height, is obviously proud of a thick, curly head of charcoal gray hair. His eyes, at a certain angle, seem also to be charcoal gray, but then they shift and become pale blue. Although he himself has become the subject of interviews and is increasingly sought as a speaker (not an expert) on a wide variety of topics, Susskind spends most of his time in New York with his wife, two daughters, and son. He hopes the boy will go to Exeter and then to you know where...
...Probus (PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS) Club, among dozens of other such groups. Cosmopolitan Washington has its Recorder Society, Foggy Bottom Chamber Music Group, and Potomac English Handbell Ringers. And Manhattan, naturally, has an ad-agency outfit called The Many Splendored Stompers, whose theme song is Man in a Gray Flannel Stomp...