Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree form an agreeable contrast to the more solemn and dignified proceedings at the Chapel. Seniors are not the less gentlemen for showing for a few moments that they still have youthful spirits, and rowdies they do not show themselves...
...that his enthusiasm is contagious. He cannot contain himself when he sees an old lady taking a shit in the woods, and has to come up behind her and whisper, "God bless you!" His reaction to death is "Whooee am I scared!" He tries to think of some last, solemn, sententious word, and comes up with "Cocklebur...
Preparations for the solemn, glittering ceremony that was to honor this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature halted abruptly in Stockholm last week. In Moscow, Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn called at the Swedish embassy to inform Ambassador Gunnar Jarring that he would not be making the journey to Stockholm. Earlier, the writer had expressed his determination to attend the Nobel festivities Dec. 10, "as far as it depends on me." But denunciations of him in the Soviet press have climaxed in the charge that the writer, a twice-decorated war hero, was a Nazi sympathizer...
...COLUMN of flame: Vegas is the most unbelievable of cities. From the air, the solemn, silent desert appears to have split a wayward seam, spewing forth a hidden cache of tawdry jewels. Bingo, Nevada style...
...opening scene, the boy feels honored that he has "joined the company of men." In another age, Munger might have been a typical American golden boy, son of a tire recapper and a tireless, depleted mother, himself a gas station attendant, possessed of a muscled torso and a solemn, black-haired girlfriend (later wife) who holds back her sex until he confesses his love. But in 1969, cruising with fellow loafers past drive-ins and hamburger stands, boxing a few stumblebums for the cash it pays, Ernie is merely another case of development arrested by outdated and neglected traditions...