Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association President Lewis F. Powell Jr. declared that whatever else it may have set out to be, "Magna Carta now stands for many...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaperoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...Congressional Joint Economic Committee has called U.S. unemployment "intolerably high," and warned that it poses an even greater threat than inflation to continued prosperity. President Johnson likes to glow about the future, but he becomes somber when he speaks of unemployment. Last week, while pointing to "gratifying" gains in employment-now at a record 70,169,000 jobs-the President said: "There are still too many of our people unemployed. We need to create a substantially larger number of jobs before we will be satisfied...
Peripatetic Life. The somber, tense, darkly attractive Argentine seems especially attuned to the melancholy moods of Chopin. Throughout most of the contest and even on the day of her triumph, she wore only black. Both her parents are officers in the Argentine diplomatic corps, and their peripatetic existence during her early years afforded her the opportunity of studying with a variety of noted teachers. After winning two international competitions, making a highly successful tour of Europe and an excellent first recording, she curiously retired from playing in public and all but gave up practicing. She resumed her career just...