Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit of olive drab is popularly supposed to turn U.S. comrades in arms into brothers under the skin. That it frequently does nothing of the sort gives Novelist Joe David (Stars in My Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
...Johnson announced that the feminine touch will soon extend to the city's police cars: "They'll be in assorted colors, and they'll be beauties-pretty reds, pinks, blues, greens and other shades; even the word police will be in complementary tones. Black is so drab...
...Montgomery County courthouse. Then, for four days last week, the tramp of Negro feet sounded heavy in the dingy downstairs corridors, on the creaking steps and in the second-floor hallway (with its sign reading, "Gentlemen will not and others must not spit on the floor"). In the drab courtroom, decorated by an American flag and five advertising calendars, Negro voices were raised in pain and anger. And outside the old courthouse, shabby for all its pretensions of Greek revival elegance, a Negro crowd roared hope...
...latest thing among younger British painters is a violent swing back to realism. Like their young contemporary, French Prodigy Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), they are concerned with the drab reality of everyday life. Their favorite subjects are pots and pans, pubs, dingy outdoor scenes, and almost anything handy piled on top of the kitchen table. Hence their collective title: "the Kitchen Sink School...
...Lost Phoebe probably comes closest to expressing the essence of Dreiser's drab vision of life. An old farmer becomes convinced that his dead wife is actually lost in the woods and wanders year after year in search of her. He is granted one happy hallucination, blunders toward the apparition, and falls to his death at the foot of a cliff...