Word: grayness
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...Fellow novelist Carolyn See explained it in 1981: "He's not going to get the recognition he truly deserves because to read Yates is as painful as getting all your teeth filed down to the gum with no anesthetic." Joyce Carol Oates agreed, writing in the Nation, "A sad, gray, deathly world - dreams without substance - aging without maturity; this is Yates' world, and it is a disturbing...
...approved several construction projects in its Northwest campus, including plans for a large academic complex. For instance, the Everett Street Garage and the Wyeth Hall dorms were bulldozed in summer 2007 to accommodate a new academic complex on Mass. Ave. Associate Vice President for Harvard Real Estate Services James Gray stated that plans for Law School building developments in the North Yard would not affect local businesses, but he was reluctant to discuss Three Aces’ closure. “We generally don’t make comments about business relations with individual tenants,” he said...
...Florence. This is the second time Renzi has pushed his way to the front of the line. Five years ago, at just 29, he bested experienced rivals to win the post of President of the Florentine province, a somewhat less influential role that is, nevertheless, normally occupied by gray-haired...
When Schwarzenegger swept then governor Gray Davis out of office and himself into the governor's chair in the dramatic 2003 recall election, he promised to end the partisan gridlock in Sacramento and balance the state's books. Neither miracle happened. A social liberal, Schwarzenegger had been careful to wave high the no-new-tax flag. In prior budget years, he touted bonds and found other gimmicks to put off costs until later...
What were the critics like? Some of them were vicious and horrified, and some in love with the book, like John Updike and Henry Miller. There was no gray area. They either were outraged or ecstatic. Nothing in-between, which I suppose is good. (See the top 10 John Updike novels...