Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it has done some positive good, the so-called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect...
Last week, Moscow operagoers were seeing a performance of Boris that justified its labor pains. A chorus of 180 voices rocketed Mussorgsky's somber music to the gilded ceiling of the huge red & gold Bolshoi Theater. A whole class of children from the Bolshoi ballet school, as well as a large company of nonsinging extras, filled out the stage. Standout scene: the coronation, full of massive bells, the swelling crescendos of the huge orchestra and blazing pageantry...
...been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...
...Martians. The news spread fast. By late afternoon a crowd was gathering at No. 5. It was as though the cast for some vast and somber drama was assembling before curtain time. Scores of miners' wives seated themselves numbly on benches in the mine washroom. Rescue crews from towns all around the coal fields-from Belleville, Herrin, Du Quoin, Eldorado, West Frankfort-stood in their hard-toed shoes studying a map of No. 5. Near them were reporters, photographers, state troopers, Red Cross workers, and the drivers of the hearses parked outside...
...Cliffhangers. A Study of History is dominated by an image of genius. The view is of the chasm of precipitous time. On its sheer rock walls, as the eye of the spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden...