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  • What I was trying to say re the Mao suit, was, that it was (to borrow a phrase from George Orwell), a 'Tyranny of Drabness'; prior to the cultural revolution in that country, the attire was brighter and livlier.

    18th and 19th Century Country Women 2009

  • Katzenjammer merely blends in with the surrounding Drabness.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Katzenjammer merely blends in with the surrounding Drabness.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • As I wrote in an essay called "In Praise of Drabness" that was published last year in

    About Last Night 2009

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