Word: greying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seminar program--very few houses offer more than one seminar per year, if any--is just another indication that House are failing to live up to their expectations. The scant interaction among undergraduate House residents and senior common room members is nearly farcical; most students only glimpse hordes of grey-suited professors filing to receptions in masters' residences...
...Black is for the Quad, grey is for Leverett, and white is for river houses," he said
Zaheer Ali's angry letter, published in the March 3, 1993 Crimson, is reflective of the unbearable, stifling atmosphere in which the race debate is forced to stagnate. The issue of racial justice is simply not Black and white. A dogmatic unwillingness on the part of Ali to see grey has two unfortunate consequences for his group, the BSA: it loses the sympathy of all those who still have faith in constructive, level-headed discussion, and it forces Ali to misrepresent comments (or to substitute counter-arguments with a series of ad hominem attacks) in order to dispense with opposing...
...periods. The Three Kingdoms Period shows little Chinese influence, but part of what makes Korean ceramics of this period so successful is the technical proficiency that only Korean and Chinese ceramics of the period were able to achieve. The wares of the Three Kingdoms Period are generally made of grey stoneware, a high-fired ceramic ware impervious to liquid. The Henderson Collection has many fine examples of these early wares, particularly ceremonial stands and food containers known for their large scale and cut-out bases. These dramatic pieces of near technical perfection should not be missed. The other wares...
...Koryo Period, Korean potters perfected the technique of celadon glazing. Celsdon wares, glazed in a blue to green glaze, started in China and traveled into Korea. The celadon glazes, which gain their color from iron compounds contained in the glaze, were well suited as glazes for the grey stoneware used in Korea. Decorative techniques such as carving, incising and molding were employed in these Koryo ceramics as well. Later in the Koryo celadon tradition, in a complete departure from Chinese ceramics, Korean potters so mastered the celadon technique that they incorporated inlaid black and white slip--or liquid clay--designs...