Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Epitaph for George Dillon is the first of Osborne's attempts to jolt British drama out of the drawing rooms in which it has lived and dozed for many years. It is set in an utterly drab and ugly middle-class house in a London suburb--and a complicated setting it is too, with sitting room, kitchen, hall, stair, and bedroom all simultaneously visible...
...background of the play consists not only of the Elliots' drab and ugly house, but of their drab and ugly lives. George Dillon, who comes to live among these simple, honest, somewhat somambulistic folk, is eloquent about their mindlessness at great length...
...free choice whether or not to join NATO; 2) insisting that they keep their pledged word on the World War II agreements, which set up Berlin under four-power auspices and turned the city into a striking outpost of prosperity, hope and defiance only because the Communists wrapped their drab, unsmiling empire around...
Nemerov's formula is simple, although somewhat personal: "I never go to bed with less than six art books. I sleep like a top. I get up and see my florist; then I might paint florals until noon. I love color. Without color the world is too drab. Therefore God put flowers in it. Whether I paint a skyscraper or a pussycat I want to make it more interesting, but the vital thing is the flowers...
...Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where he has just spent a month on charges of "uttering menaces"-he had threatened to cut out his patron's liver, or something of the sort. He trots over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty old man," and besides he already owes her four quid nine...