Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio: "You might hear a physics lecture surrounded by splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...
What awaits them, those students who arrive in July with that carefully prepared catalogue, 170 pages bound in dignified gray. Each is seeking his or her Harvard: do they find...
From Pots to Pop. Andover boys seem to love Bart Hayes's unorthodox approach. One hundred and fifty a year sign up for the course, and 20% of the seniors major in art. Several have made it a lifetime calling, either as museum directors, artists (Painters Cleve Gray and George Tooker), or designers (Expo 67's U.S. Pavilion Display Designer Ivan Chermayeff). But Hayes, the perpetual inquirer, still finds himself wondering about the average boy, "how much has rubbed off on him permanently, how has he reacted over the years...
...Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board has binding jurisdiction only over cases arising from "industry and commerce." Thus, Harvard, as a non-profit organization is not bound by any of the state board's decisions or rulings. Harvard's lawyers, the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray, mentioned at the hearing's outset that Harvard was not waiving any of its rights...
Take the scene at Christie's last week. Gathered in a reverent circle for a pre-auction sampling was a handful of collectors, rich young men, food snobs and knowing oenophiles. Before them was a small, gray-green, hand-blown bottle. Carefully the dust of two centuries was wiped clean, the hard wax seal was delicately chipped from the neck, and with surgical precision the ancient cork was drawn in one piece. Then a thimbleful of bright, golden liquid was poured into a small, tulip-shaped glass. A patrician sniff, a twirl of the glass, the first...