Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Time Tomorrow (by Jan de Hartog; produced by the Theatre Guild) is as solemn as a church organ and as hollow as a drum. A young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should already be dead; what is keeping her alive is a passionate desire to reproduce. She is additionally remarkable for having learned the nature of death, and for having visions that foretell the future...
Golden Multitudes is a history of American pipe dreams : a record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...most observers. Muskrat houses this year are not tall, he said, but their walls are thick. Rosebushes have lots of buds, growing close to the ground. Jackrabbits so far have only tiny patches of white on the tips of their ears and on their forelegs. The chief's solemn prediction: six more weeks of mild weather, then a moderately mild winter with not much snow...
...child, Johahn Strauss was in his heaven and all was well with the world. But Wilhelm's youth was soon shadowed by death. First, Cousin Rudolf (the Crown Prince) committed suicide at Mayerling. Then Cousin Franz-Ferdinand (the Heir Apparent) was killed at Sarajevo. Suddenly everyone became terribly solemn and said that young Archduke Wilhelm, the descendant of Holy Roman Emperors, would soon occupy a throne...
...Christians who take their creed seriously, they matter a great deal. Last week, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, made that point clear. Before the solemn Convocation of Canterbury, he spoke bluntly to (and about) one of his bishops, the Right...