Word: drear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ethel and nine of his ten children; behind him was the big, green-felt-covered table at which he had sat as counsel both for Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and for the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally curbed the Wisconsin Senator's power in the dim, drear days of the middle 1950s...
...epitaph drear: "A fool lies here...
PIAF AND SARAPO AT THE BOBINO (Capitol) presents the late Edith Piaf in the enthusiastic but otherwise drear company of her young (25) Greek husband, Theo...
...rainy, unpromising greyness surrounds the short stories of Delmore Schwartz, as it does the fiction of other writers who find the literary quarterlies their most congenial homes. One reason for the quarterly drear seems to be an extreme distrust of the dramatic, arising partly from squeamishness about melodrama, that greatest of sins against artistic sophistication. Another is the honest awareness of serious men that the cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast...
...Drear lads, I've never been a cop hater. Too small a role. But one is not a cop lover, for that is cancer gulch...