Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...AWOKE ONE morning in Winthrop to gray and red, colors of perfidy. Bricks, rain and Memorial Hall: blood, sweat, tears. A slight stomache ache precluded moussaka. Time to ask big questions, time to consider things buried in black and white reading lists. So he was driven to sleep 12 hours at a time, to postpone thinking although ideas danced fitfully. He contemplated writing a book on procrastination, but he knew he'd never finish. Thin layers of tension peeled away, evincing gastric elegies. Thought would have to wait...
...awoke the next morning in sterile Stillman to gray and white. Safely sheltered away from the outside's pall, he rolled over and roalled their whispers. Disease had attacked his glands, his spleen, his liver. Is he a drinker? they asked down the hall. No, his friends answered. But could we please have gamma globulin shots just to make sure? You won't get it, don't worry, his friends were told. He hoped his friends wouldn't get "it." Elsie's could not be seen from his bed, but no matter; the roast beef specials would wait, wait...
...arose to open the blinds. It was blacked out. Happy that the gray had dissipated, he fell asleep in the chair, staring into the dark...
Fine, he would take the test, the test of wills, of the will to power, the will to survive. He would will, but still, the gray sky and purplish blood and jaundice and the nurse and Elsie's and Hitler tortured him. He thought he would fail the test...
...Cleveland represented a wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...