Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drab, Socialist and hard-pressed Britain badly needed a flash of color, a majestic reminder of past glory. Last week it got one. The pageantry lasted for only a few hours; the worries, the austerity would remain...
This week, as Christian High's students trooped back to class after the Dusehra festival vacation, there were prayer meetings for them in all the town's other schools. And, though Christian High School's prayer hall was kept closed, students marched out of their drab yellow school building and defiantly sang the forbidden hymn in the yard...
...photographic Christina Olsen took second, and Karl Zerbe's cluttered but technically clever Actors took third. Wyeth's almost monochromatic study showed that conservatism in art need not imply lack of imagination. Son of famed illustrator N. C. (Treasure Island) Wyeth, he had done justice to his drab subject in a way fresh enough to stop the eye, and hold the mind...
...eight buildings that will compose the new center will be a far cry from the drab structures that make up the housing project. Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, has prepared preliminary drawings for the center, and his firm, The Architects Collaborative, has been appointed architects for the project...
...trouble with The Young Lions is that, though Shaw has planned a large narrative structure, his novel often crumbles into unintegrated sketches. Many of these are good, especially at suggesting the drab atmospheres of Army camps, but many others become preachy and dreadfully sentimental. What is worst about his writing is that he has uncertain taste; he never knows when to stop. He begins with a moving description of Noah's pain at coming across anti-Semitism in the army and then collapses into a completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers...