Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic gown, once worn every day for warmth in unheated northern European universities, needs restyling each 50 years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy. Last week, at graduation, Columbia showed its new doctoral dress. Slate grey with a facing of black velvet replaces the black that is customary in the U.S. A four-cornered soft tarn with a gold tassel replaces the stiff mortarboard. The university thoughtfully advised academic plumage-watchers to note the border of the hood for "the color indicating the discipline to which the degree pertains: arts and letters, including journalism, white; theology, scarlet...
...Messenger. After checking an ominous 72-lb. suitcase onto a transatlantic airliner, the kindly old vicar toddles into the men's room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among...
...John P. Holloway rose to say: "When you open a highway, you cut a ribbon. When you build a building, you lay a cornerstone. In the case of a pool, the only way . . ." Thus, done with formalities, the mayor and three Boulder officials threw the triple-orbiting spaceman -trim grey suit, white shirt, striped tie and all-headlong into the water, manfully jumped in after...
After adding up the $5,574,944 in losses, the paper listed nine shows that had so far made $1,254,422 in profits. The Grey Lady's grey matter failed to execute the obvious next step and subtract the second figure from the first...
...face is grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded...