Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reynolds Price still has the letters people sent him when they thought he was about to die. Some move him to tears. The most formal and solemn give him, characteristically, the giggles. All of them fill him with triumph -- he is, after all, still around to read them...
...play's triumph, however, is in creating an atmosphere that makes Nelham-Wright's somewhat solemn rendition a touching comment on the difficulties of love. With a beautiful set, designed by Hilary Hanson, the production has a look and feel that is the perfect backdrop for its high-society hijinks. The split indoor/outdoor stage brings the Lord's posh country mansion to life, though lighting difficulties detract from the reality of some outdoor scenes. The wide-open stage, while a visual delight, makes partial fades inadequate in concealing actors' exists and entrances. Despite these technical difficulties, however, The Philadelphia Story...
Critics of Canaday typically argue that it is not as aesthetically pleasing as the other dorms, like Weld or Matthews. And it is true, that at first glance, there is somewhat of a solemn and desolate look to Canaday. But I would hardly go so far as to say that my dorm is "an insult to the educated mind." Nor would I agree with O'Shea that it is "cheerless...
...well-placed foreign observer. As a more positive incentive, "we are offering Croatia the world if they will reverse their policy," said a Western diplomat in Zagreb: money for economic reconstruction and refugee resettlement, loans from the World Bank and associate membership in the European Union. Tudjman, haggard and solemn, appeared on television last week to announce that he backed a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...first person to say that AFARM isn't the greatest or most successful organization to take root at Harvard. However, they do serve an incredibly important purpose. In an environment where liberals and conservatives write a never-ending stream of serious and solemn articles and letters about homosexuality, feminism or whatever, a whimsical group with strong political views is definitely needed. I think that the political climate at Harvard would be much more stressful without AFARM...