Word: greyish
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...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...
...latest gift of famed, splenetic British Publisher Beaverbrook (Daily Express, Evening Standard) to his boyhood province is an expertly lighted, $1,000,000 museum of glazed bricks, white limestone and greyish-white marble. The building is divided into a recessed showroom where the picture-windowed north wall frames the placid river flowing below, a long and large gallery at either end, and a basement that converts easily from exhibition halls into lecture rooms. To cut the glare from artificial lights, all walls are faced with a light beige fabric; grey and brown terrazzo floors are offset by stairways trimmed...
...roomy nose cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
...presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez employed. Claude Monet, on the other hand, made his own discovery, that light acting and reacting over objects is all that the eye knows of them, and that color in shadows, far from being black, often strikes the eye more caressingly than in blinding sunlight...