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...rebels were actually jeered by their fellow citizens. A few of the noncombatants later came to blather a good fight, but far more of them lapsed into political indifference and deeper cynicism, which is why, for some years after independence, this colorful country produced the world's drabbest politics...
...cats, lions, woodchucks, hogs, pouter pigeons, turtles and horses make up a delightful menagerie that reported on the wind, beckoned to the thirsty, announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory of the nation. To the most humdrum of days, they added a touch of color; to the drabbest of buildings, they gave a bit of dignity; and for the vitality and imagination of a whole people, they provided the perfect outlet...
...question of art, the phenomenon is sad enough. The drabbest epitaph of all is that the show is generally an unrelieved bore. The psychological implications, however, are more unhappy still. This all helps a great deal to understand why an advanced people of intellectual attainment have been known to find themselves hysterically shrieking Sieg Heil! to an enraged psychotic with delusions of grandeur...
...explained by the fact that the approximately 5,000 fans entering the east side of the Stadium will be discussing the biggest game in 38 years, while the 10,000 odd heading for the west side will be mulling over what they fear will be one of the drabbest curtain-raisers in 81 seasons of Harvard football...
...kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...