Word: graying
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...Gray, a self-described “fat asthmatic Glaswegian,” began writing his book as an art student in 1954. In a 30-year display of what can only be called tenacity, Gray continued to work on the 500-page novel until its publication in 1981. Perhaps Gray had an unusually strong sense of faith in his project, one that allowed him to push on where many writers would have quit...
DIED. A.M. Rosenthal, 84, venerated, combative editor credited with reviving the New York Times during the financially strapped 1970s and transforming the Gray Lady into an engaging, reader-friendly daily; in New York City. Over 55 years, the onetime foreign correspondent rose through the ranks and, as the paper's top editor for 17 years, presided over the winning of 23 Pulitzers--most famously for publishing the classified Pentagon papers, which detailed the U.S.'s secret involvement in Vietnam. His temper, management style and efforts to modernize the Times--emphasizing feature reporting and adding sections like Science Times--drew critics...
...friends was to play a drinking game they called “Stump Vik.” But when asked if anyone could actually do the name of the game, Sullivan said, “It just never happens.” —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...more intelligent part of your brain.” But the Art First celebration was not limited to professional artists. With help from Jack Megan, director of the OFA, as well as the construction company itself, residents of Mather, Dunster, and Leverett House united to paint the gray wall seperating Cowperthwaite St. from the construction zone across the street.“People were a little fatalist about the construction, so this way we can own it more and make it ours,” said Dunster resident Erinn M. Wattie ’06, who helped organize the event...
...interview. “And he had that when I saw him a few weeks ago. It was good to see the old Duane.” Meat graduated in 2001 from the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. According to the school’s newspaper, the Green and Gray, “Meat has constantly been a high achiever.” In middle school in Minnesota, “he taught himself pre-algebra, as there were no teachers qualified to conduct the course themselves,” the paper wrote in 2001. “[T]here...