Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lilacs or lilies-of-the-valley, framed pictures, an old square piano with a tasseled shawl, candle brackets by the main door, a writing desk and accoutrements, a folding screen, antimacassars on the backs and arms of chairs, and so on. Hovering over everything in the back are gray tree branches suggestive of tentacles that keep the inhabitants rooted to their provincial garrison town although they long to go to Moscow and its supposedly greener grass. (But Chekhov himself is careful again and again to poke holes in the characters' absurd vision of Moscow as an alleged paradise. Furthermore...
...novel opens, Martha, in her thirties and a white refugee from colonial Africa, is wandering through a dislocated London where cellars are damp and paint is blistering and wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government undergoes, the poor never escape that world, this novel reflects Orwell's paternal influence. Politics, particularly the opposition politics of the Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing...
...just make sure it comes out right." Chris Kraft's unlikely podium is the windowless Mission Operations Control Room on the third floor of Building 30 at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. His musicians are the 30 controllers who sit at four rows of gray computer consoles, monitoring some 1,500 constantly changing items of information registered on gauges, dials and meters. Kraft's primary instrument is a pair of IBM 360 Model 75 computers with a total capacity of 2.5 million bits of information, which enables him to harmonize the thousands of complex equations...
...archaic sanitary storm system floods the sewer mains, sending untreated household wastes into the river. Sometimes the old mains break, as recently happened on the Big Creek interceptor line. Each day for the past month, 25 million gallons of raw sewage have cascaded from a ruptured pipe, spilling a gray-green torrent into the Cuyahoga and thence into Lake Erie...
...White's best reportage delineates character; portraiture is his forte. In 1968, events overshadowed individuals. It was a year of frustration and disruption, of groping and dismay. Many were killed, the timid endured, the vague were exalted, the hesitant lost. Finally the managers stepped in, good and gray but hardly the stuff to invigorate the imagination...