Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he was 56, James sat for a portrait by his young cousin Ellen Emmet. The painting, which James varnished himself and hung in his dining room, showed an Old Master, solemn if not portentous, massively trussed in a beige waistcoat and dark suit with a heavy-knotted, speckled cravat. A "smooth and anxious clerical gentleman" was the way James summed up his own likeness. But hidden underneath, on a separate canvas, was an unfinished portrait of quite a different man: Henry James as a country squire out of Fielding-ruddy face, eyes full of animal energy...
...potential subscribers, and will aim for a circulation of about 250,000 by the end of the first year. Says he: "There are large numbers of well-educated people with highly cultivated tastes who enjoy the experience of reading and thinking and who take the world seriously without being solemn about it." This sounds suspiciously like the same audience that Cousins has always aimed at. If he does deliver a new offspring, it will likely be a direct competitor of Saturday Review...
...hardest unpaid job in the world." The eager, enthusiastic Liberians helped prove her point. She was greeted by Tolbert in a red-carpet ceremony complete with the ruffles and flourishes and 19-gun salute usually reserved for a head of government. Dressed in red, white and blue, she kept solemn step with the military tattoo as she reviewed the Liberian honor guard. Following the ceremony, she rode at Tolbert's side in an open-car motorcade along the 40-mile highway to Monrovia, the capital. Beneath the welcome banners that punctuated the arch of entwined banana trees, villagers abandoned...
Wayward Saints aims mostly for entertainment and then a bit beyond at a message. The play falls short of its more solemn ambition, but its comedy hits accurately for most of the evening. The show is good, not great, but a modest play well performed has its place in collegiate theater, and Wayward Saints is exactly that...
...after all those profits without honor in the serious film world, Hammer is attracting a cineaste cult following. This fall the prestigious British Film Institute showed a retrospective "Tribute to Hammer Films" at London's National Film Theater. The month-long festival came complete with solemn program notes (the portrayal of a Cornish voodoo cult in The Plague of the Zombies is seen as symbolic protest against oppressive modern mineowners). The changing critical climate seems to make Sir James uneasy. "I hope our public realizes that we're not going to change in the same way," he says...