Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pair of Stories.?The popular im pression that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death...
...playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into an amusement park. You may berate such people all you like, but for heaven's sake don't exaggerate, and at least have the courtesy not to ignore the fact that there are serious-minded persons who have a conception of tourists as fitting in perfectly with our national program. "I beg you to consider for a moment that the tourist from beyond the Alps and beyond the ocean is a consumer, is a purchaser. Perhaps they don't buy many shoes...
...most obvious obstacles to the plan is the difference in the space between Mount Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...
...more serious than that. The Oklahoma House drew up ten articles of impeachment against Governor Johnston and quickly passed five of them. With the anti-Johnston forces holding the whip hand, it was practically certain that the remaining articles of impeachment would be passed. The next step would be the suspension of Governor Johnston from office and his trial before the Senate court on charges of general incompetence, official corruption and moral turpitude. The step was taken by a vote of 38 to 5. Automatically Lieutenant-Governor W. J. Halloway became Governor, pending trial of Governor-Suspend Johnston...
...propose to overthrow my Cabinet, mes amis," cried the Prime Minister, "do so now! A crisis today would have serious but reparable consequences. A crisis once the negotiations have begun would be a mortal blow to France...