Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years 1937-1941 were somber ones. Gradually, world and national news took up larger and larger spaces on page one of the CRIMSON; and with increasing frequency the editorials on page two were devoted to debates about neutrality and criticism of two Presidents, Conant and Roosevelt...
...court in downtown Detroit has the familiar grey Government air. Lawyers match wits in somber courtrooms, jurors try to understand, defendants try to look innocent. But there is one big difference. Detroit's federal district (trial) court handles 90% of its criminal business without the help of a single U.S. commissioner-the federal magistrates who man the front line of federal criminal justice. Despite this fact, the Detroit court is among the best...
...book survives as more than a memoir of a battalion; it stands as a funeral service for a generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...
...Texas political fortunes. In the White House he must deal with the nation's press, not a group of colleagues. And he must also remember, although it rankles him, that what is written about him, and what is suppressed, sometime may shape as much public opinion as all those somber, reassuring speeches...
MOZART: OVERTURES (Angel). Besides six overtures, including The Marriage of Figaro and Cosl Fan Tutte, Otto Klemperer plays the gently brooding Masonic Funeral Music and the rich and somber Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, which Mozart arranged for string orchestra from a two-piano fugue. With London's Philharmonia Orchestra, which was reorganized and renamed the New Philharmonic Orchestra during the course of these performances...