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Twice in the past week Washington power figures have quoted Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, standing at his window in 1914. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." But it is different down on the floor of the Senate, Ted Stevens ("How can we defend ... ?") and Robert Byrd ("Let the Soviets guess...") argue. So do others...
...looked at her with his grey, distant gaze...
Horn's grey eyes said gently, Do not touch me, child...
...steel and blue glass of the Zion Baptist Church shines out from the grey of North Philadelphia. Its beige brick walls lighten the burned out buildings nearby, and a steel cross towers over bent and broken street lights. Zion attracts one of the largest congregations in the area, a district infamous for its high crime, poor housing and racial problems...
BURROUGHS, like most writers who came up in the 50s, reacts to the grey-flannel uniformity and dehumanizing technology of the era, as personified in Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch. But he is no Miniver Cheevy. "In many ways of course everyone knows that life was more pleasant a hundred years ago. On the other hand, of course, most of us would be dead," he said in his WASP/aristocrat groan. "I sometimes take a census of the number of my friends who would be dead if they had lived a hundred years ago and it's almost a hundred...