Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sateriale, is Saroyan's The Ping Pong Players which is best glossed over. Nick Fuller and Miss DeMott do an adequate job with what is at hand, but as Saroyan states, it is a trivial play about trivial people. An attempt at fancy, it is artificial and drab...
Southwest Texas, then a collection of six drab stone buildings set amid giant live oaks and honeysuckle atop steep Chatauqua Hill, was, and still is, on no one's list of top colleges. Yet it gave the free-swinging youth plenty of elbow room. Since Johnson City school was unaccredited and had only eleven grades, Lyndon first had to take a sub-college cram course at San Marcos to qualify, was found fit in just three months, entered in March...
...milieu has become predictable and precariously close to a bore. One knows not only what one will meet in such a house but who the residents will be. The father will be a petty tyrant who punctuates every sentence with the word bloody. The mother will be a crushed drab who never lets anyone forget the burdens she bears, flaying the family along with the food...
Along Broadway he seems to be everywhere. The newlyweds are using his skylit walkup in Barefoot in the Park, and The Odd Couple (see THEATER) has just moved into his drab, cluttered flat. In Luv they are leaping off his bridge; gypsies are dancing in his fortunetelling parlor in Bajour. Sherlock Holmes is struggling with Moriarty on his cliffs of Dover in Baker Street; Ben Franklin is still joyously ascending in his balloon; and Dolly is giving her big hello from his Yonkers streetcar. In all, the seven sets account for more than one-third of the shows on Broadway...
Less impressive is the book, by Todd Cobey and Dan Shulman. The basic, plotline--two professional agitators come to Unsaturated Poly to help students find something to protest-had numerous potentialities which were not exploited. Too often Messrs, Cobey and Shulman rely on the drab staples of these shows-the puns and parodies of TV commercials-instead of on less puerile language...