Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achieve fairness in a historic and profoundly disagreeable job. At last Nixon was forced to yield up what became known as "the smoking gun"-a previously deleted passage of the transcripts in which the President flatly ordered an FBI-CIA cover-up of Watergate; it contradicted his repeated solemn assurances of his innocence and condemned him to at least a charge of obstruction of justice...
...play gets off to a slow start despite a madrigal-like solemn number about wives swearing to deny their husbands "entrance." At first, it's even difficult to hear some of the lines. But once the basic comic situation of the play is revealed--the male characters walking around with painfully exaggerated erections--things hit their stride. The translation seems to be William Arrowsmith's and usually it works out very well, and every once in a while the actors make it too clear it is a verse translation. And jokes the cast occasionally added--like one Athenian's wife...
Even some of the President's supporters worry that he is devoting more energy to matters of style-such as reviewing Armistice Day troops at the Arc de Triomphe on foot rather than by car, and approving a more solemn version of La Marseillaise (TIME, Nov. 18) -than to problems of substance. In fact, Giscard's "relaxed" presidency has produced some creative reforms in non-economic areas. Last week, for example, his Cabinet approved a new liberal abortion law, votes for 18-year-olds and an end to wiretapping...
...Heyward, 29, the Rev. Alison Cheek, 47, and the Rev. Jeannette Piccard, 79, joined in consecrating three home-baked loaves of bread and wine in three ceramic goblets. Piccard, who won fame decades ago for stratospheric balloon flights with her husband Jean Piccard, pronounced absolution; and Cheek gave the solemn blessing at the service's end-both acts, like the consecration, that are permitted only to priests in the Episcopal Church...
Perhaps the "loosening up" is a prelude to Plunkett's abandonment of his solemn, almost humorless tone. But it will take some time, if ever, for the dichotomy between Plunkett the offensive player and Plunkett the defensive man to become less distinctive...