Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face." Strangest of all, the party censors in the Interior Ministry announced that they wanted to go out of business. "We have reached the conclusion," they said, "that preventive political censorship should be abolished at the present state of development." The mood of the people was euphoric -and solemn. More than 3,000 workers and students trekked in driving snow to the village of Lány outside Prague to visit the grave of ex-Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who jumped or was pushed from a window to his death in 1948. The Communists, who have worked ceaselessly to obliterate...
...farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
Adair, who had been very solemn during all of his tournament matches went wild with emotion after clinching the title. "If I had lost this one" he said "I would have jumped out of the window...
...many cases, such "inside" information reflects a broker's rationalization, a story confected for customers to account for a swing in paper profits. Or it follows a line laid down by overnight experts-financial writers required to fill columns of type with solemn economic logic to explain short-term market moves that may reflect neither economics nor logic. Too often, day-to-day stock gyrations obscure a basic fact: markets are made and moved over the long haul, not by vague forces but by the conscious decisions of men. The important question is not what makes stocks move...
John Wesley Harding represents for Dylan a quantum jump in style from what he was doing before he dropped out of sight. The unexpected discontinuity requires an explanation. The new record is haunted by tramps and prophets, robber-chieftains and gypsies, called forth one by one in solemn incantation. However, these particular outcasts of society are unlike, and handled differently from, the junkies and petulant girls who used to trouble Dylan...