Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill at phrasing is extraordinarily. One character he recalls he had smoked in front of his mother he felt "It had been like making forgivable but unsightly." Updike an angry store way: "His face was dark gray back stiff, as he'd just had an of iron...
June, 1958, Harvard University presented an honorary degree to a , gray-haired, 70-year-old woman. citation to Nadia Boulanger read: half a century of teaching her influence has pervaded the musical life of two continents." Just years earlier, a young French , Nadia Boulanger, received the second Prix de Rome in musical composition for a cantata called 'La .' In the intervening decades, Nadia Boulanger studied, worked, and . And in spite of her preference for anonymity, she achieved the fame based essentially on excellence as a teacher: with Ernst Bloch Paul Hindemith she shares the of most influential music teacher...
Schlesinger is now working closely with Wayne Grover, the archivist of the United States, and Edward Hanify of the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...
...Shame!" cried conservative delegates in the camp of Glasgow's Rev. John Gray ("I'm Auld Kirk to the back teeth"), who insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
Five years later, another adventure: the hero is roosting in a colony of homosexuals on a Greek island, posing as the archest of fallen angels. Under the erratic leadership of Ambrose, a bogus decadent out of Dorian Gray, he takes up a life of wine sipping, and feebly attempts a diary. Eventually Isherwood decides that chaos is not his cup of tea. Later, safe in England, he muses, "I didn't belong on his island. But now I know I don't belong here, either." Lugubriously he adds, "Or anywhere." The reader is tempted to interject that...