Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood was still as clammily aloof as ever, but several foreign moviemakers were getting into the act. Gainsborough Associates agreed to procure for U.S. television several big-time British and continental films (including such hits as Mayerling and Open City). Televiewers could hope for something better than the drab diet of Bs that Hollywood provides...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
...technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...
...moment last week the drab machinery of British government was once again clothed in fancy dress. Against a misty background that might have been borrowed from Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe, the towers of Westminster stood pale and blue. Before them, brightly uniformed guardsmen strutted to the music of proud tarantaras. Royal Artillerymen in bearskins and tunics heavy with gold fired salutes from the park, while cavalrymen with gleaming, upraised sabers marched jet black steeds. From Buckingham Palace in gilded coaches came Their Majesties, King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth, to open the third session of Parliament under...
...good character," and teaching undergraduates to live and work together is the focal point of most of its official programs. As soon as the downy-cheeked freshman first sets foot on the Hanover campus, he is prompted to mingle with his classmates. His quarters are spacious but purposely drab, so that he will be discouraged from gathering mold over his books in scholarly isolation. The result is that the average Dartmouth man knows at least 200 of his fellows well enough to carry a conversation past the weather and Saturday football stages. Another result is that he is likely...