Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vodka & Violins. In a day and a night in Paris, Salinger had two meetings with Kharlamov (whom he soon began calling Mike)-in the Paris home of Cecil Lyon, minister of information in the U.S. Paris embassy, and in the grey-walled Soviet embassy on Rue de Grenelle. While Salinger puffed on cigars, the pair were served vodka and caviar, discussed press relationships and other communication channels between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles...
...planning and quickly, the report warns, California will be headed for harder times. "For we continue to have 1,500 new neighbors a day, a half a million a year; monstrous misplaced freeways; salty ground water supplies; park land scuffed and trampled like a pitcher's mound; a grey stink in the air. And like the great California grizzly, the slurb paws its way across that land of gold...
Despite O. Henry-like plot twists. Plowboy is a gritty and gripping play. Frank D. Gilroy sees character with 20-20 vision and he can shape the grey, doughy speech of the inarticulate into revealing patterns. Gerald O'Loughlin makes Albert a hollow but pitiable clown; the burntout, empty eyes of Rebecca Darke's Helen are as lifeless as pits on the moon; William Smithers' grey-faced Larry has the strength to bear the unbearable...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. The crisply written but melancholy-minded third volume of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime?an obsolete, upper-class way of life and death that began to turn grey for Author Waugh and his hero when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...Cosmos Club has been a Washington institution for 84 years, now occupies a formal grey limestone building on Massachusetts Avenue's embassy row with 52 bedrooms, three big dining rooms, an auditorium seating 300, a billiard room -and, some braggarts say, the capital's worst food. The club's members have included Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, along with twelve Nobel and 20 Pulitzer prizewinners...