Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee to the Federal Power Commission, seemed drab by comparison...
Nonetheless, the celebration was a festive occasion. Throngs of peasant women and men, peddling sausages and souvenirs, clustered in the newly washed streets of the normally drab industrial city. When Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski arrived two days before the ceremonies, he was nearly mobbed by frantic tens of thousands, chanting wildly "Long live the Pope"* and singing the ancient Polish hymn We Want...
Much that looked like social protest turned into a protest against the canons of art. Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...
...Hutchinson from the colony, and her later life, all over-shadowed by the image of an angry God and quivering with the rhythms of guilt and insecurity. What emerges is a cerebral, passionate, deeply religious and thoroughly female Anne Bradstreet--innocent and worldly, orthodox and impatient with orthodoxy's drab practitioners, in love with her husband and with more than that, quietly violent in her sexual self-expression--the "always heretic" that is the poet in any language at any time. Whether this persona bears more than a verbal similarity to her prototype is a question better not asked...
Across from the triangle's narrow tip, adjacent to Littauer, will be the new International Studies Center. Next to it, on a plot now occupied by a small, drab, wooden building, a new $10 million undergraduate science center will be built. Across Quincy St., facing the back of Sanders Theater, the Graduate School of Design will put up a new building. And there is room on this plot for another, probably smaller, facility when the demands arises. Finally, Hunt Hall (now occupied by the School of Design) will be demolished and replaced by either a new freshman dormitory--the best...