Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the orchestra floats a vaguely medieval sound: thick, sonorous and brassy. The dancers parade in solemn sequence across the softly lit stage, looking rather like harlequins in leotards. When they reach the footlights, the mood is suddenly jolted by a more familiar noise: the harsh twang of amplified guitars and the racketing thump of a rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal...
...bicycles or cars or ancient trucks, clinging precariously to the roofs and sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...
...delegates cheered last week, Abel set an aggressive tone on other matters. "We will want a wage increase, and not just another wage increase, but a very, very substantial one," he said. "We want a shorter work week. We want still better pensions." Besides all that, Abel gave his "solemn pledge" that a cost-of-living escalator, which the U.S.W. gave up in 1959, will be restored. He will also propose that the entire steel industry shut down for two weeks' vacation in the summer. That would be a costly proposition to the mill managers, who would have...
...might lead you to witness an electrocution where God in a key moment of fine jest caused the power lines to fail; Styron would not once think of God permitting a botched execution, though he might include Him among the later mourners at the grave: probably He would be solemn and sigh...
...Republicans can never deliver on tax reform so long as it means an attack on corporate privilege, oil depletion allowances, patent controls, licensing of utilities and the leasing of lands. The reform of all these items may seem visionary in light of past Congressional history. It would require a solemn party commitment and entail an enormously difficult investigation of ownership and pricing practices...