Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last class day for President Lowell, often described as the "ablest confetti man in the Yard." The "lasting impression" of one participant was that of Lowell, "his hat in his hand, confetti in his thin, gray hair, watching the merry makers leave the stadium. Finally, as if reluctant to leave himself, he turned and followed the crowd out of the giant athletic field...
...professor of Social Sciences. Other upper level courses planned by the Committee on General Education, are Humanities 136, "Poetry and Experience," to be taught by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Humanities 137, "The Classics in the Renaissance," which will be given by Hanna H. Gray, instructor in General Education...
Kittredge was a hale, hearty man, who chain-smoked cigars to save on matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...
...copies make A Summer Place an automatic bestseller. With serialization in McCall's ($100.000) and a Hollywood sale ($500,000 plus 25% of the profits), the book is as good a property as the oil wells Wilson bought with his earnings from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune in soybeans. (He was born into a Connecticut literary family, and his financial fancies, he thinks...
...Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet: he does not own a gray flannel suit ("I won't have one in the house"), although clothiers have offered to outfit him with enough gray flannel suits "to last a lifetime...