Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lear is the most titanic figure in all drama. When Carnovsky first enters, dressed in a purple tunic, a silver-trimmed orange cloak, and a heavy gray embossed baldric, he mounts an improvised black bear-skin throne, stands with right hand alott, and all those present instinctively kneel. Though an octogenarian, this Lear is no weakling. He is not just a great man; he is not even just a king; he seems to be almost a god implanted on Olympus. (In an inspired touch, this same bit of business is pathetically echoed towards the end of the play...
CLEANTH BROOKS, Gray Professor of Rhetoric at Yale University...
...lattices and fences. Others are more obscure and lead one into guessing games. But in the last scene, which for seven minutes pictures former meeting places of the pair, shows the emptiness of solitude. The sun is setting, but the director avoids heavy contrasts; the scene is a dull gray. If Eclipse--like its last scene--is lifeless, it is because it illustrates the difficulty not only of communicating, but of thinking and feeling and of living...
Clarence E. Kobuski, curator of the Arnold Arboretum and of the University Gray Herbarium, died yesterday at his home in Weston. Kobuski...
Kobuski had received world-wide recognition for his taxonomic studies of flowering plants; he was also a specialist on the plant life of Asia. Kobuski had served as head curator of both the Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium since 1954. He also edited various scientific publications of the two institutions...