Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happily carried water from his stream and cut wood with a chain saw. For company he hiked across the river to Windsor, Vt., and passed the time with teen-agers in a juke joint called Nap's Lunch. The kids loved him, but mothers worried that the tall, solemn writer fellow from New York would put their children in a book...
Sonny, as he was then called, a solemn, polite child who liked to take long walks by himself, had no brothers and only one sister, Doris, who was eight years older than he. Salinger once said that Seymour and Holden were modeled after a dead school friend, so reporters and Ph.D. candidates are forever searching for him. At least two of the author's prep school acquaintances died young, one of them a boy of great brilliance. But intensive detective work shows that Salinger, like a lonely child inventing brothers and sisters, has drawn most of his characters...
...dangerous Red challenge of all: a Soviet threat to cut off Allied air access to the beleaguered city. Kennedy reacted swiftly and with unmistakable determination. The White House issued a statement that ranks as one of the toughest of the cold war: "The United States must serve a solemn warning to the Soviet Union that any interference by the Soviet Government or its East German regime with free access to West Berlin would be an aggressive act for the consequences of which the Soviet Government would bear full responsibility." This week the U.S. and Britain are preparing to send...
...wall was illegal, immoral and strangely revealing-illegal because it violated the Communists' solemn contracts to permit free movement throughout the city; immoral because it virtually jailed millions of innocent people; revealing because it advertised to all the world the failure of East Germany's Communist system, and the abject misery of a people who could only be kept within its borders by bullets, bayonets and barricades...
London's awesome St. Paul's Cathedral was the scene of a solemn occasion last week-the election of a new Bishop of London. Behind tight-shut gates covered by pink curtains gathered 18 members of the cathedral's Great Chapter, led by Dean Walter Matthews. With appropriate portentousness, the dean questioned the assemblage: Should the election be "by acclamation, by scrutiny or by compromise"? It was decided that it should be "by scrutiny," i.e., secret ballot. And that was odd, as Tweedledum might say, because the Bishop of Peterborough, Robert W. Stopford, had already been chosen...