Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weekday mornings at 7:55 a grey Cadillac sedan calls for Gardner at his Chevy Chase, Md., home, and he usually jots down his day's agenda on a lined yellow pad during the 35-minute drive to his office. On Gardner's desk is a copy of an aphorism written in German by an unknown author: "Das Beste is gut genug"-the best is good enough. Behind the desk is a framed photo of the President with the inscription, "Now, John, I mean it. We must cut down on spending...
Builders and small shopkeepers are the only significant urban groups that have not been nationalized. In Damascus and Aleppo, dozens of half-completed grey buildings stand forlornly in their wooden scaffolds, abandoned by builders who stopped construction because unrealistic rent controls would deny them profit. Though 90% of all "feudalist" land has been confiscated, the government so far has allocated only 20% to farmers...
...American university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger...
...powerful as ever. The President rattled off proposals to reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
From William Rothenstein, who did his portrait, Nicolson learned that Oscar Wilde "had a red face, grey lips and very bad teeth. He was so ashamed of his teeth that he used to put his hand over them when he spoke, giving an odd, furtive expression to his face...