Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late afternoon closed meeting of the protestors, Brown said that if the injunction is issued, "we will be up against the full might of the federal government." The assembled students were somber and for the most part, silent...
...shot suicide, and Yepikhodov's unfulfilled promise to "shoot myself so to speak" in Chekhov's last play, something has obviously happened. Laurence Senelick, directing his own translation of Cherry Orchard, pays proper attention to the writer's final, bitter playfulness by mouthing a production that breaks through the somber fragilitv of traditional Chekhovian staging to a vital if slightly fuzzy theatricality...
...undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also called the seizure of the ship a "wanton and aggressive act" and added, tightlipped: "Clearly, this cannot be accepted...
President Johnson is as ebullient in manner as he is expansive in vision. It was no doubt a difficult exercise for him to stand before Congress and deliver a report card on the nation's past performance and future prospects that was somber in tone and spare in content...