Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overriding Issue. The one somber theme that cropped up at most of last week's meetings had to do not with dividends or profits but with the uneasy relationship between business and Government in the wake of the steel price battle...
...letters Heth, Teth and Jod the great, impersonal majesty they must have. Part of the trouble lay with the women's weakness and faulty pitch; otherwise the chorus gave the Latin text an admirable portrayal. But because the closing Jerusalem did not reach the massiveness it needs, its contrasting somber ending had little finality...
Flying down to Washington, Blough ar rived right on time. Ordinarily a somber sort, he appeared downright jolly as he entered the White House. Awaiting him, puzzled and just a bit apprehensive, was President Kennedy. For months, Kennedy had been cultivating Blough, allowing him back-door entry to the White House. He had reason to think that his attention to Blough had paid off: less than two weeks before, U.S. Steel had reached a contract agreement with the United Steelworkers that Kennedy hailed as "non-inflationary" and as an example of "industrial statesmanship." So what did Blough want...
...moonstruck liar in a life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have none; I am alien to life, I am lost in still water." So, most of the time, is Author Barnes. And even Nightwood suffers from that most irritating offense of difficult writing-the mysterioso effect that hides no mystery, the locked box with nothing...
...about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway...