Word: greyish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls. Both the Yale administration and the architect were agree that the colleges should have the look of permanency which most of the university's other buildings possessed. The color and texture of the walls of the earlier colleges strongly resembled that of the cotswolds in England, a warm greyish, stable effect...
...Dark Labyrinth is a new old book, written when Durrell was 33, midway between his youthful Black Book, a greyish imitation of Henry Miller, and the artful arabesques of The Alexandria Quartet...
Your Religion editor writes, "Just outside New Delhi, in low bamboo enclosures paved with dried cow dung, 400 Hindu pundits and priests have gathered." Dried cow dung- indeed. A thin solution of cow dung and water is patted on the ground to produce a hard greyish surface which is then artistically decorated with various colored pigments. The result is a sweet-smelling, smooth layer that holds up under normal traffic for many days. Since the worshipers remove their sandals, the floor of the enclosure is far cleaner than the floor of the average department store one hour after opening...