Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the modern disciples of Rumi, who were ending their first tour of North America to promote Turkish culture, performed their 700-year-old ritual at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nine dervishes, solemn in long black capes and tall cylindrical hats, entered the hall led by a sheik. Beckoned by the chant of a blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended...
...biographer of James Thurber is almost certain to put himself inexplicably in the wrong, because whatever approach he takes-jocular, solemn, literary, psychological-he is likely to provoke satirical muttering from Thurber's ghost. The tone of the present biography, an examination of Thurber's literary career by a Pomona College English professor, is clonking and scholarly, and sure enough, muttering seems distinctly audible...
...group of less solemn souls paraded loudly down Mt. Auburn St. singing "Happy Birthday," to a student they carried on their shoulders...
...Congressman Patrick Caffery. Politics can be largely personal in southern Louisiana, and on that score Watkins is a formidable opponent. He is a French Catholic whose roots reach back 150 years in his predominantly French Catholic district; his manner, relaxed and amiable, appeals to the Cajun voters. Treen, a solemn and somewhat humorless Methodist, is counting on Nixon's coattails...
That is precisely what Namath did against Baltimore, a game that prospective quarterbacks should have watched with the same solemn intensity that surgical residents devote to watching a kidney transplant. With deadly skill, Namath dissected one of the two or three best defensive units in pro football. At one point in the game, for instance, Running Back John Riggins told Namath in the huddle that the Colts' towering (6 ft. 7 in.) left-side linebacker, Ted Hendricks, was slacking off a bit on his pass coverage. Joe said nothing, threw one incomplete pass, then connected for short yardage...