Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drab as it is, indeed, Night Song earns a modest but honorable corner in movie history on two counts. A piece of music is played straight through without cuts or that customary desperate wandering of the camera's eye which suggests that it hates music and is bored sick. And for once a movie set of Carnegie Hall does not look like a set for Dante's Purgatorio sculptured out of Ivory Soap by Norman Bel Geddes. With electrifying effectiveness, it just looks like Carnegie Hall...
...disillusionment at year's end, Socialist Arthur Koestler wrote of Britain: "The problem of incentives is the most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted...
Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...
...long." In a velvet-draped chamber, visitors admired a model of the future U.N. headquarters (one of the few tangible signs that U.N. had a future). Said an exquisite young lady: "Oh, I think it's going to be fascinating." Then she pointed questioningly at a drab expanse on the model's edge. "Oh that," explained her guide. "That's New York...
This anthology of recently written British poetry, fiction and criticism is a painfully faithful reflection of current British life: drab, grey, intelligent, courageous...