Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment rallies, TV talkathons, hilarious games of beisbol in Havana's public parks, spearfishing at Varadero beach and interminable gabfests with the students at Havana University, where he would often hold court until 4 or 5 a.m. No more. Today's Fidel Castro has a dull, grey look about him. He goes only to Iron Curtain receptions, talks only to Communist correspondents-and then only out of duty. "The heady days are over," notes a resident in Havana. "All you hear of Castro these days is in the newspapers. He's suddenly started behaving like a bureaucrat...
...living. "We must get Turkey moving again!" he proclaims. The military, which holds the real balance of power, still bans any direct reference to the slain strongman or the use of his Democratic Party's name, but Demirel's Justice Party uses as its symbol an iron-grey horse-and the word for that, in dialect, is demirkirat. The demirkirat has become so popular that in one Black Sea village a Justice Party supporter last week knifed a Republican who, he felt, was singing a folk song about a grey horse without the proper respect...
...minute you mention "Negro." He's one of the few people, north or south, black or white, who would rather listen than talk to you about civil rights, even if the topic is his own back yard. The most fatuous polemic brings only a smile, a twinkle of his grey-green eyes, and a friendly "Hell, you know better than that." If you get out on a ideological limb, he'll case you down with a shaggy dog story or a two-ounce refill. He wants to hear what you think. He is intellectually curious. At Harvard this year...
Thus, stuck away in the country hollows, in old villages around which suburbs have grown, in city slums that look like grey blurs from expressways and fast commuter trains, the poor are scarcely visible. Society sees them mostly through the tabloid stories that reflect their roaring crime rate. For, as Henry Fielding put it 200 years ago, "the sufferings of the poor are less known than their misdeeds...
...medieval Paris, the streets were open sewers, but the Seine flowed so clearly that from the bridges it was possible to see fish swimming among the stones and green plants on the bottom. Today, after an energetic cleanup campaign, the streets are clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great...