Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orgy of opera and auctions, ballet and children's workshops, drama and kite-flying contests, cabaret and Festival sales at the Coop. The brick walls around Harvard Yard may come tumbling down to the vibrations of a rock concert, and colorful banners may break the drab facades of many a store-front--music and merry-making might even wreak havoc with the traditional apathy and antipathies that threaten to haunt the area...
...police car with a flashing dome light, slowly toured Gallo's old President Street neighborhood, then drove to Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery. Police and federal agents were among the spectators. An unusually large number of gravediggers and an out-of-place olive-drab telephone van were on hand. The mourners filed by, dropping single roses onto the casket and crying: "Take him, Big Boy! You've got him now, Big Boy!" Big Boy meant...
...toured extensively as TIME'S Moscow correspondent from 1968 to 1970, is a classless society with a privileged elite. In China, by contrast, everyone is poor together. There are no private cars, no summer dachas, no resorts for key bureaucrats or favored intellectuals. Instead, there is a drab, intense and self-absorbed society, where workers, peasants and soldiers appear to be running everything from schools to shipyards with only barely perceptible social gradations. The leader of the Revolutionary Committee in a Nanking fertilizer plant does not seem to be depressed that all he has to show for his exalted...
...seen at Harvard this year. The second one-act, "T.V.", easily makes up in richness of movement and fun for the flaws of "Interview". This is all to Berlin's credit, because she has choosen to play up the life in the scenes instead of making them significantly drab. Three professional television monitors are sitting together watching the screen in a T.V. rating room. The five other actors act out what's happening on the screen. Skits from Westerns, newscasts, british war movies and religious crusades follow one after another and plenty of fun is made of commercials. Marilyn Duchin...
...stocked, although the prices of luxury items are almost prohibitive: a good camera, for example, costs $80. City streets are clean and orderly, and traffic jams are created by bicycles rather than cars. There is no litter, no beggars, no prostitution, no drug addiction, no alcoholism. Almost everyone wears drab, heavy-duty work clothes-children, however, are gaily and colorfully dressed-but there is no sense of utter poverty. Instead, workers and peasants alike beamingly tell Western visitors of their faith in Mao and his works, and convey a sense of happy participation in their society. Prof. Victor Sidel...