Word: dourness
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What happens now to Olliemania? Senate Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye asked the question obliquely in his farewell address to North at the conclusion of day six. With perhaps a touch of irony -- it is hard to tell with the dour Senator -- he wished the newly minted hero and his lady well, as they set off into the sunset...
Hirsch establishes his dour tone early on by distinguishing between literacy (the ability to read one's own language) and cultural literacy (possession of specific information). Students may be able to read at a ninth-grade level, according to Hirsch, and still be ignorant of history and society. He quotes a Latin pupil astonished to find that she is learning a dead language. "What do they speak in Latin America?" she demands. A California journalist testifies, "I have not yet found one single student in Los Angeles, in either college or high school, who could tell me the years when...
...godfather who is less indulgent than I pretended. In that volume I had all my work done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines for his second installment, nor do any of the more prominent naval officers in charge: dour Captain Anderson or the affable but proper First Lieut. Charles Summers. The journal keeper takes up his pen with scant inspiration: "There is no story to tell...
...Satan, a stately adaptation of the Georges Bernanos novel about a self-torturing priest (Gerard Depardieu); its directorial style fell somewhere between rigor and rigor mortis. And now Yves Montand, president of this year's festival jury, was announcing the award of the Palme d'Or to Pialat's dour drama -- the first local product to grab the top prize since A Man and a Woman at the 20th fest...
Under the glare of television lights in the Rayburn Office Building, the dour former Marine described himself as a loyal public servant who became an architect of policies he did not always believe in. Yet time and again he defended the President while blaming himself for the questionable efforts to support the contras. "President Reagan's motives and direction to his subordinates throughout this enterprise has always been in keeping with the law and national values," McFarlane asserted. "I don't think he is at fault here, and if anybody...