Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab." Yet, it was evidence that the son of a famous father, after only a year in the U.S., was making...
...like a newsmagazine), and no newspaper-style headlines. Fortnight ago, for one edition only, Parham decided to let his readers peer into the future. The eight-page issue (price: 5? ) carried the news in seven departments (Local, State, National, Foreign, Sports, Markets, Life), topped stories in each department with drab, label-style heads (e.g., BRITAIN COAL STRIKE). Instead of the usual 24 stories on Page One, the News crowded...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
...Producer Pandro Berman and Director Vincente Minelli have stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life. Instead, at a leisurely and often-lagging pace they have pried into every nook & cranny of Emma's avid, neurotic soul and the drab existence that nourished it. The handling of bumbling peasants and pompous tradesmen has an acid authority. One memorable scene-a whirling, overheated ball at a local château-is a wonderfully skillful projection of Emma's half-swooning sense of her own seductiveness...
From the outside, the Beauregard grammar school on busy Canal Street seems as antiquated and drab as any. Inside, its floors gleam with wax polish; its walls are freshly washed. Built for 500 pupils, it expects to house 650 this fall; last year it had to turn down 300 applicants from other parts of the city. The man responsible for Beauregard's high regard is 33-year-old Principal Joseph Salvador Schwertz...