Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also proved too much for more than 100,000 readers to resist. At the start of 1965, Ramparts' circulation stood at 15,000, which remakes the old point that sensationalism sells-at least for a while. Made up with zip and full of color photos, Ramparts avoids the drab look of most leftist magazines. And no other left-wing publication in the U.S. pursues shock more relentlessly or plays around more with fact. "We look at things from a moral point of view," explains Editor Warren Hinckle...
...general grinds to a halt. Two enlisted men enter, paint him a neutral olive drab and carry him off to the Pentagon, where he will replace a computer...
...nation's toy manufacturers this year has been minimal. As the Christmas rush went into its last hectic week, retailers had an arsenal of toy guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...
Modern generals win paper monuments. Roman triumphs and imperial purple are out; the dead great don't even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial states, still need platoon leaders and even heroes; but above all they need a military bureaucrat, a lord of the files...
...single facet of Goat Island particularly stands out: the performances are individually erratic; the set is unduly drab and natural -- particularly for such a non-theatre as Christ Church where a stylized setting would have been much more appropriate; the blocking is effective at times, and contrived at others. But the finished product somehow triumphs over its parts...