Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Making solemn charges of false teachings, board members of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis last month suspended the school's moderate president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, and sparked an angry walkout of most of the seminary's students and faculty (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, using the walkout as grounds for dismissal, the seminary board fired 46 members of the faculty and the executive staff, then promptly appointed seven new professors and 33 part-time faculty members who will be on call to teach the remaining students...
...oriental" cells were left naked, without blankets or light. "Try it," she tells a group of students. "Go into the cell, and I'll close the door, and you pretend you have to stay in there alone, 24 hours a day." After five minutes, the kids emerge, solemn-faced and committed to lives of virtue. Next, Sara points down ten stone steps to the "dungeon of Alcatraz." That was where the prison authorities would try to break a man, she explains, "when he was still able to say, 'I am me.' His hands were manacled...
...have what I consider the most solemn and substantial assurances of my absolute independence. There are absolutely no restraints on my freedom to seek evidence, including presidential tapes and documents...
...Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
...Nickel Mountain leaves you feeling that there is an order to life. At the end of the book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene loses its farcical element...