Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only constitutionally elected government in its history. The two and a half year war that had brought down the Republic cost over a million Spanish lives. This month, all over Spain, church bells are ringing at regular intervals to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the war's end. Somber and funereal, the bells suggest the ambivalence that lingers in many Spanish minds on the subject...
...this spare and somber pastoral tragedy, his first film, Director Vittorio De Seta tells what happens to a herdsman who makes just one mistake...
...Philharmonia, regarded by many as Britain's finest, has announced plans for a quiet suicide in September. The casualties, which were variously blamed on Beatlemania and the muddy sidewalks around Royal Festival Hall, at least produced one healthy change. For the first time ever, in somber conference with officials of Britain's Arts Council last week, each of the orchestras acknowledged the others' existence and the problems common...
...Hands. Her recollections of a Brooklyn girlhood are somber. "It was pretty depressing, and I've blocked most of it out of my mind," she says. She never knew her father. He was a school teacher who died of a cerebral hemorrhage when his daughter Barbara Joan was a year old (1943). Her mother spent the next three years lying in bed, crying, and living on her brother's Army allotment checks until the checks stopped and she took an office job. Barbara spent her days in the hallways of the six-story brick apartment building they lived...
...became dean of the music school. The opera is one of Wagner's most inaccessible, but Bain has an ample notion of his school's grandeur, and each year Indiana's Parsifal aspires to more. Last week, with five faculty members in the leading roles, a somber, brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus and the 74-piece Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsifal would have done almost any opera house proud. Said Bain, who can trump any compliment...