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...achievement symbolized by the somber drama of a man on his knees: Brandt, on a freezing December day in Warsaw in 1970, before Poland's memorial to victims of World War II. Here was a German Chancellor making an act of atonement for his country's wrongs, a gesture that electrified the world. Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1971; he had been named TIME's Man of the Year a year earlier...
Some Cambridge residents are resisting the more somber version of the holiday promoted by critics. Former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who now serves as a governor of the Dante Alighieri Society of Italian Culture, says the Genoese explorer is an important figure for many Italian-American young people...
Well, the real theme is not so much the ecological qualities of the brown crumbly stuff as the internment value of it. For example "Rain When I Die," "Down in a Hole" and "Them Bones" all express the rather somber motif elicited by the Chain crew...
Benjamin whose script last year lost out to "Up Your Ante," said she feared that she had been rejected again when Pudding Vice-President Adam S. Geyer '93 called her, sounding quite somber...
Just walk down to Dillon Field House and look at the walls. Row upon row of somber looking 20-year-old New England men. Over 100 years of pride (and ugly uniforms...