Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...been reading your article on the American emigrant [Nov. 30] and reminiscing about how I used to spend hours poring over TIME in my drab, unheated Sydney room. My interest then was not generated simply by memories of the friends and material comforts I had left behind but also by the feeling that America was "where it was at." America is the world's Rose Bowl, and I'm glad to have been allowed to come back to be a participant. WILL TURNER San Francisco
...Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...
...wasn't exactly art, but for about three hours yesterday the drab outer walls of the OFIA were adorned with colorful slogans...
Theatre at Harvard has too often been conventional, drab, and second-rate. Directors and actors have been unwilling to take a chance on failing, with the result that anything not time-honored and safe is ignored. Productions often display that lack of imagination that leads critics to lament the death of theatre as an art form. It is refreshing, then, to see a production like Bergreen's that takes chances and succeeds. The theatre at Harvard needs productions that do not mistake convention for art. Canterbury Tales is a step in the right direction...
...only political party, Sabry was the most pro-Soviet of all of Nasser's advisers. But he was a difficult choice to put over. Not only is his health almost as bad as Nasser's was-he has a heart condition-but his personality is about as drab as Sadat's. Nevertheless, Sadat is likely to share considerable power with Sabry and Interior Minister and former Chief of Intelligence Shaarawi Gomaa, who has emerged as a strong contender for leadership. To see that this troika continues Nasser's policy of close relations with the Kremlin, Moscow...