Word: solemn
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...class of '43, however jaded by the war, was characterized by its acute awareness of its role in world politics as well as its commitment to society at large. Students confronted matters as trivial as broken curfews and as solemn as deceased classmates. They ate in the Union; they taunted Elis at The Game; they attended classes in Sever and Emerson...
Commencement, they argue, is a special occasion. It's a solemn commemoration of an important passage. It's a proper ceremony that shouldn't be disrupted by disrespectful demonstrations...
...ubiquitous true-crime movies. The joke is that it's more believable than most of the ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas it pokes fun at. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile, The Candidate) and screenwriter Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance) don't lampoon the genre; they merely strip it of the solemn sensationalism that TV usually lavishes on these seedy tales. What's left is acid black comedy...
Captain Ted Drury echoed that sentiment in a solemn and reflective Harvard locker room after the game. "We didn't play that well; there's nothing you can really say about it. We haven't played our best for a couple of games now, and you don't play your best...
...album is inspired by Incidents, a collection of Barthes's late writings recently translated by Richard Howard, packaged together with Bringing Out Roland Barthes in matching bindings, bound together back-to-back with a wide paper band that depicts the two authors' eyes. Barthes gazes out, solemn, from one side of this literary package; Miller smiles impishly from the other. Just as it is hard to tell which book to read first--is the Miller an introduction or a commentary to the Barthes?--it is impossible finally, to say where the encounter between these two men begins or what...