Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these useless objects") to potter around with posters and fancy screens. When Toulouse-Lautrec dined at the home of the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, he found that the food had been chosen for its color. It was characteristic of the age that Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray had one favorite novel bound in nine different ways to suit his changing moods...
...Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that a dutiful husband and son could not fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy...
After these broad strokes come successively finer, heavily italicized distinctions: the blue-gray gnatcatcher "looks like a miniature mockingbird. A very tiny, slender mite, even smaller than a chickadee, blue-gray above and whitish below . . . long, contrastingly colored tail." It migrates through the whole of Texas, winters in the southern part, breeds in the northern. The black-tailed gnatcatcher has "less white on tail." Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark." The deadpan statement, "red eye is of little aid," has nothing to do with liquor but refers...
...least Victorian of all Victorian authors, Oscar Wilde, observed in his novel, Picture of Dorian Gray: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." He would have had no cause for complaint last week in England, where segments of his life were being filmed in two different movie studios. At Elstree Studios, Producer Irving Allen, shooting The Trials of Oscar Wilde, threatened a court action to stop the work of Director Gregory Ratoff, whose production is succinctly titled Oscar Wilde. Then Allen told the London press...
...company also got an unexpected puff from Winston's slogan?"Winstons taste good like a cigarette should"?which had been dreamed up in an advertising session with Gray. Questioning the use of "like," Critic Clifton Fadiman assailed the "quiet assassination of the conjunction 'as,' " and Editor Bruce Bliven cried: "I find that I sit in front of my television set shouting at the tiny figures on it: 'No, no, you dope. Like is a preposition...