Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with all that space around. I tried to achieve a somber mood...
Kallem himself was feeling far from somber. "During the war," he said, "I worked in an aircraft factory, and I've been living on my savings ever since. I gave myself about two years to see how I would make out. If I didn't get anywhere, then I figured on resigning myself to being a Sunday painter. My savings were almost gone when this happened. You see, it's the first painting I ever sold...
Conrad was a master not only of English words but of various devices of storytelling, including what Mr. Zabel describes as "a complicated exercise of the mode of averted suspense"-enough so to drive his fascinated reader, at times, nearly to distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...
Through the somber streets of Clermont-Ferrand ran a frantic youth. "Protect me! My organization is out to get me!" he shrieked when he reached a police station. He said he had been summoned to a nearby villa, "Chez Lisette," where the other members of the "organization" had condemned him to death for treason...
...Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had a distressing set-to with his landlady. He sued to break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner I thought fitting...