Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them not found in the fresco." In some cases, a comparison of the sinopia with the fresco has revealed surprising differences. The sinopia beneath Andrea del Castagno's muscular St. Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton's Renaissance scholar Millard Meiss suggests that perhaps the sinopia was by a different artist...
...time it's not too bad," she says tossing her bobbed head. "I have a very nice apartment with a fan." The man looks at her pensively for a moment and then returns to his drink. The customary TV set is on, showing an old movie with two gray-haired men talking in a library. You can't hear what they are saying, for the voice is off, and a "Here Come De Judge" routine is blaring out from a radio instead...
...Southern "black shack" is made out of wood, that has become gray from several years of exposure. There is no glass in the windows, or plumbing or electricity in the house. The shaded front porch is where most of the people spend their time, mainly out of necessity, since there is not enough room in the house. Behind the house there is a small wooden outhouse underneath the house there are chickens, rats, and black children...
...beside Richard Nixon's name this Nov. 5 will actually be choosing seven Republicans, among them Dean S. Evans Sr., 47, a Salina grain and cattle dealer and regular party contributor. Kansans who prefer Hubert Humphrey will actually vote for seven Democrats, including Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 68, a Topeka bank president and U.S. Treasurer under Harry Truman...
That was the final tribute to the tall, lean man with blue eyes and a fringe of gray hair who was known to many students at Harvard because of his client attitude toward grades...