Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts the eye but starves the emotions, Crime and Punishment winds up a bore...
...Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
...spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint's statue on the garish Boulevard St.-Denis. An old tradition permitted all men to kiss any spinster they encountered on St. Catherine's Day, but this was outlawed by some busybody reformers in 1933; last week, as usual, the 1933 prohibition was roundly ignored...
...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
Berkeley's Engineers' Glade was buried under an unsightly array of temporary buildings ; another row of prefabs made a garish contrast with the Italian architecture of U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall. Even the floor of the men's gym at Berkeley was in use for classes, and regular classrooms ran as late...