Word: solemnization
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...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...
...Marxist theory stigmatized the institution as a bourgeois relic whose sinister purpose was the orderly transfer of property from a father to his son. The Soviets scythed the religious significance out of marriage entirely, and in the post-Revolution years they advocated easy liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook for the future grey and bleak. Nor did such prospects encourage bringing...
...some 50 years ago, when Joyce was a language tutor in Trieste-just about the time of the publication of Dubliners and just before A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was completed-the susceptible Irish emigre fell in love with one of his students, a young, solemn Jewish girl of dark and fragile beauty. Giacomo Joyce is the title that Joyce Scholar and Biographer Richard Ellmann found written on the cover of the notes and diary in which the author recorded his amorous experience...
Among the known nonfiction quantities will be Inside Australia, by John Gunther, a new Julia Child cookbook, a determined tract about women by Feminist Betty Friedan, George Plimpton on a new swinging golfer named George Plimpton, some solemn warnings by General James Gavin, and some unsolemn ones from William F. Buckley Jr. William Manchester is back at work on his study of the Krupp industrial empire; both Robert Lowell and James Dickey have new books of poetry...