Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine. Joshua J. Zimmerberg wheezes through his old retainer's role in high style. Kerry McCarthy is as good, as Rose Maybud, the soprano. And Douglas H. Hunt, as Fuller's foster-brother, trying to avoid his Ruddigorish fate without needing to die early, is just remarkable--perfectly solemn and apparently joyfully in on the joke at the same time. The whole production is like that--and it's certainly a joke worth being...
Standing before U.S. District Judge William Bryant in Washington last week, Watergate Defendant Herbert Porter, 36, made a solemn promise: "1 am absolutely positive in my heart, down to my toes, that I will never get into trouble again." The judge presumably believed him. Porter received the lightest sentence handed out to a Watergate conspirator: 30 days in jail. But then, Porter had participated in only a minor way in the Watergate coverup...
Most Democrats are baffled about how best to exploit this unique circumstance. They worry about whether their party's most effective course is to try to make capital out of the possible impeachment proceedings or make a show of ignoring it under the pretense of solemn nonpartisanship. Lately, Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss has been trying a bit of both strategies...
...airport ramp. As local officials rush forward, the door swings open, and out pops a wavy-haired, rather pudgy man (185 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame), with the unmistakable aura of a true celebrity. Adjusting his glasses and his smile, the visitor speaks in a solemn baritone, the scholarly English sentences laced, to the puzzlement of some, with the Germanic accents of his native Fürth. But the audiences listen carefully. The hopes, fears and future of his own country and the world may well depend on whatever is about to transpire...
...nation in Western Europe gets along better with China than does France. Last week, though, the Peking government issued a solemn warning to Paris about possible grave consequences for future relations between the two countries...