Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Somewhere in the back of the collective American mind lies a quaint and engaging folk memory that surfaces once a year on Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims. Stouthearted, pious, gray-clad churchmen marching to their meetinghouse with bell-mouthed musket and faith in God. Brave Miles Standish. Gentle Priscilla. "Speak for Yourself John" Alden. The Mayflower Compact, that cornerstone of American democracy. Freedom of worship in a new world...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds dispatched three men and one truck-equipped with brown-gray paint-to the scene of the incident. Donning protective uniforms and face masks, they uncoiled a 40-foot hose from the truck and painted over the slogans...
...that I look over this rather squalid list," one faculty liberal noted, "I think we may have overemphasized the need for a pure academic. In the Spring we were so afraid of getting a general or a corporation executive, I guess we distrusted the Wall Street-Ropes and Gray influence too much. There are some who wonder if the need for an academic ought to be reconsidered," he added...
...Carriage. Aside from Yankee baiting, the inauguration ceremonies were characterized by Allende's efforts to project the common touch. As diplomats arrived in medal-spangled military uniforms or white tie and tails, Allende received them in a dark gray business suit. Instead of riding in the traditional two-horse carriage to the presidential palace, he made the trip in an open Ford convertible. From the palace balcony, Allende, who won a narrow plurality as the leader of a coalition of far-left parties that includes the Communists, told the crowd below: "The people today enter the house of Presidents...
...viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting panic, until the heaving surface can no longer be experienced as a flat plane. All that contradicts the eye's movement, and stabilizes it, is a swell of color intensity-turquoise and red coming out of gray and fading back again. The effect of such images is more akin to revelation than illusion, for it seems barely credible that so much energy could be contained in one pattern...