Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color in the imagery, something which is doubly essential here because of the central position of a painting in the poem...
...best lines stand out too conspicuously, or more often remain submerged in the gray sounds of grammar and they must be hunted for. One has the feeling that the poet is mumbling to himself. The absence of an audience is also implied by the almost total lack of humor despite the title of the poem...
...Tutored by Slingin' Sammy Baugh, past master of passing, and apparently unbothered by eyeglasses as thick as welders' goggles, Hardin-Simmons' Quarterback Ken Ford took a team of Southerners into the Blue-Gray game in Montgomery, completed twelve of 23 tosses and beat the North...
...task of organized labor in the year ahead is not to use monopoly power to force wages up but to join in promoting the increased productivity that makes possible higher wages without higher prices. The need for increased productivity is nowhere more obvious than in Richard Gray's featherbedding building trades, which deliberately hold back output per man-hour through restrictive rules; e.g., painters must use brushes, not sprayers...
...that the wages of bricklayers, carpenters, et al. ($2-$5 an hour) have far outrun their productivity, pushing the prices of houses far out of line. To keep housing prices from getting further out of line is clearly to the interest of the building trades. That is what Richard Gray was trying to say, and it was precisely what needed saying...