Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...using of that grand old hostelry, the Waldorf-Astoria, a flock of giddy girls and boys are celebrating their last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang is to see where he has hidden the loot...
...surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast the he was "the best song and dance in the world" failed to ring true: threat that he would throw himself the East River seemed far more possible. Mr. Brian's interpretation, however, is admisable; moreover it is vincing and consistent throughout...
...collection of these fancies to Drs. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Both psychoanalysts suggested that she exhibit them abroad not only as works of art but as studies in abnormal mentality. As though in reaction to the bril liant gay colors of the ballet, Painter Nijinsky uses a somber palette. Recently he has entered what Mme Nijinsky calls his Black Period. In New York to exhibit her husband's work, she explained: "He just paints dark spaces...
...paintings of Jacques Louis David carry the insignia of that austere and serious age which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel...
...criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent; the most perverted, grotesque exaggeration is the rule. Author Neumann has laid on both somber and gruesome colors with a heavy hand. Whether or not a caricature it is a big picture, horrible, nightmarish...