Word: solemnizations
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...home, where he still lives quite comfortably. Snow hints that his young people constitute an experimental new model of human nature, expressing "not only the future of desire, but the future of fate." On closer examination, how ever, they turn out to be merely incipient Snow men, i.e., earnest, solemn, long-winded committee members. Once more, then, Snow's plot hinges on the rather academic question: Who casts a deciding vote? The answer comes with a dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose...
...Mood. The talks amounted to a "constant flow," a White House aide remarked. Once Nixon and Brezhnev came to some agreement, lesser officials headed by Henry Kissinger on the American side and Gromyko on the Soviet negotiated the details. Secretary of State William Rogers talked trade. Kissinger seemed more solemn than usual, a bit more preoccupied...
...being "not fundamentally an American newspaper published abroad, but a newspaper published abroad by Americans," though its parentage is mongrelized, though a plethora of bylines now appears, Weiss manages nonetheless to keep something of the old New York Herald Tribune's tone. It is serious, but not solemn. If New Yorkers notice a familiar rhythm to some of the editorials, they are not imagining things. Harry Baehr, 64, once the New York paper's chief editorial writer, still contributes a few editorials each week-writing from New York...
...made McGovern, already a solemn young man, still more somber and earnest. Back home, he plunged into history studies at Dakota Wesleyan, then went off to study for the Methodist ministry. The limitations of the clerical life soon disillusioned him, and he switched to graduate work in American history at Northwestern University, taking a master's and a Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, which culminated in the Ludlow massacre of miners and their families...
...solemn betrothal: your word...