Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such. The front shows a sort of slimy, ectoplasmic quill pen writing music, and the back has a "quote" from Sir Donald Tovey about composers who "have shuffled off these mortal coils." This remarkably florid pseudo-Shakesperianism was allegedly transmitted last January by Sir Donald from beyond the grave. Tovey was never a great stylist, but even he never sank that...
...Edward Schillebeeckx, France's Yves Congar, Germany's Karl Rahner, Hans Küng and Johan Metz. Participants came from 32 countries, including 40 from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Some 700 observers signed up and nearly 200 journalists arrived for the five-day conference. Earnest, grave, mostly business-suited in the now-common European priestly fashion, the theologians gathered in Brussels' vast Palais des Congrès. The conference began peacefully enough. Then, when Schillebeeckx and his Concilium colleagues offered 28 rough-draft resolutions for the congress to consider, the lid came...
...defending Republican Senator Ralph Smith of Illinois against the challenge of Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, Agnew paid a rare Republican tribute to a Democratic machine politician. He noted that Stevenson had called the Chicago police "storm troopers in blue" for their part in the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. "The grave injustice done by that convention was not done to the demonstrators in the streets," Agnew said. "It was done to the good name of the great city of Chicago and its mayor, Richard J. Daley...
...Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield had sponsored to force the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by the end of 1971, he assailed his colleagues in brutally personal terms. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," he charged. "This chamber reeks of blood...
...quickly. His pal's belt buckle catches noisily on the edge of a zinc roof at the key moment. An American sleeping potion administered to a guard fails to work in time. Months are spent in building a raft, piece by piece and then storing it in a grave, only to have a fellow prisoner squeal. But Papillon still has money, left from more than 10,000 underworld francs that he put in a plan, a small, polished, waterproof metal tube, harbored in his lower intestine. Papillon is also stirred by dreams of revenge as well as a longing...