Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Facts of Life. Despite this somber chronicle of flight and death, many politicians and pundits outside Germany still cling to the notion - based in part on deep-rooted fear of resurgent German power - that its people are gradually becoming reconciled to their coun try's partition. In West Germany itself, this view is accepted in some quarters, mostly because it is a fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have...
...bell tolled mournfully from the vast hilltop monument of Douaumont, where 100,000 nameless skeletons are entombed. French army drums and bugles sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards...
...addition, many of the elaborate turntable sets by George Jenkins were impressive, though they often carried the somber mood of the play...
...Washington U. is maximizing its need-dispositions by launching a somber project with a slightly hilarious purpose: translating social science into English on the ground that "many val uable research discoveries" are now lost to uncomprehending laymen...
...published), Camus recorded his early speculating, tentative theories and spontaneous observations. Like notes found scattered along a trail, they not only indicate his destination but also why he chose it. This volume covers his youth in his native Algeria, summer's sojourn in Europe, and the first somber years in occupied Paris...