Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discerning comments upon our efforts to provide mass education of high quality. I agree, also, with the unanimous verdict concerning the alleged representation of me which appears upon the cover. ... I don't believe that even my worst enemies would say that today I resemble the wrinkled, grey-haired old man to whom TIME'S artist signed my name...
...only extraverted thing about Yeats is his clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...Editor smiles and says he will fix that. And he does. He gets me a grey pin-striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...daylight, too, that grey suit looked worse. "Oh, you, sharpy," someone yelled. I don't like it, but I've got to keep cool, or they might find out I'm from Harvard, and that wouldn't be good. Now that we know what the pranks are and have pictures and everything...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...