Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EUGENE HIGGINS-Braverman, 23 East 67th. Oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings by a minor U.S. romantic (1874-1958). Like his artistic forerunner, France's Jean Francois Millet, whom he admired and imitated, Higgins painted somber configurations of the lowly-peasants, tramps, and refugees. Through...
...somber ceremony witnessed by Brother Ted, 31, and Sister Jean, 35, New York International Airport (Idlewild) was officially rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were a few brief speeches and a patter of applause as the 3-ft.-high J.F.K. initials were unveiled prior to being installed atop the International Arrivals Building. It was a "fitting memorial," allowed former President Harry Truman, 79, two days later. But even so, continued H.S.T., Americans in their grief are in too much of a hurry to rename everything, "including the pups and cats. After things settle down...
...black, somber headlines, stretching like funeral ribbons across all the front pages, had faded at last. The assassination and burial of a President, the murder of his accused killer, the accession of a new President, had all received unparalleled press coverage. And the long gallery of words and pictures would form for historians the first raw documentation of tragedy. But there was more to be said, and by last week the world's press had turned to the task of reprising that dark November...
...crowd of 10,000 spilled along the hillside, stood within 100 yards of the gravesite. Television cameras and newsmen were stationed within 50 feet of the bright, artificial green sod spread around the opening. Drummers from the Marine Band marched to the top of the hill, hammered out the somber beat as the caisson drew near. The Air Force bagpipe band, moving in slow step, wailed The Mist Covered Mountain...
More than 2,000 students, faculty members, and alumni gathered at Memorial Church Saturday to pay tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy '40. Twenty-three years after he received his bachelor's degree cum laude, the late President was mourned in a simple and somber service during which many showed their grief by weoping...