Word: solemnization
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Another sign of Teng's ascendancy was the solemn, though posthumous, rehabilitation of several former top leaders who had been victims, like Teng himself, of Mao's frequent purges. T'ao Chu, once the party boss of Kwangtung province, had been hounded to death by Mao's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, while former Defense Minister P'eng Teh-huai was purged in 1959 for policy differences with Mao. P'eng's persecution was officially attributed to the Gang of Four, but as millions of Chinese know, there...
lohn Updike, novelist: "I have never liked authors who kill off characters blithely. I think it's quite a solemn act and should done with as much pomp and love as Tolstoy does...
...Democratic Party by the retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan." Did we expect Republican Rick Lazio to be the one candidate who could best fill that gap within the Democratic party? No. The Times' editorial board was not deciding between Lazio and Clinton at all, but was applying its solemn rubber stamp to a foregone partisan conclusion...
...time has ever been quite as gregarious as the present. The number of conventioneers has grown steadily over the past decade. This year 26 million citizens gathered in solemn or profane conclave and there spent an estimated $15 billion. That is double the amount they spent ten years ago, and twice as much as Americans allot for amusements and spectator sports. There are some 28,000 trade, professional and other voluntary associations in the U.S., and by year's end they will have met nearly 250,000 times. The rage to meet has helped pack the nation...
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Soprano Anna Tomova-Sintow, Alto Patricia Payne, Tenor Robert Tear, Bass Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Under Davis, Beethoven's great Mass moves majestically from the solemn opening Kyrie to a troubled Agnus Dei, in which timpani and trumpets dramatically evoke man's troubled state, before the Mass ends on a serene note. The performance is both spiritually and musically intense, and the chorus sings like the heavenly hosts...