Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year of legal existence to celebrate, were out to celebrate it in downtown Rio. The Dutra Government, alarmed by mounting strikes and mass demonstrations (TIME, May 27), was just as intent on putting Rio's 150,000 unruly partisans in their place. Rio's police chief, somber José Pereira Lira, ordered them to meet in the remote beachside suburb of Ipanema. The Communists refused, scattered thousands of handbills calling all proletarians to downtown Carioca Square...
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...
...landscapes had a muted harmony which reminded U.S. eyes of moist June afternoons seen through Polaroid sunglasses. The honey-colored people who lived in them possessed the gentle strength and warmth of his models, the wooden stiffness and empty-eyed thoughtfulness of their idols. Each painting was an elaborate, somber tapestry of colors that no other artist had yet dared to weave...
...right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long, rambling, Shesanesque introduction and concludes with a brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks they may, and should: it ought to be possible "for two views of society to share the same world...
...lights were burning late in El Pardo, the somber palace on the outskirts of Madrid. As he waited in the cold, cavernous halls hung with tapestries of medieval Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco might well have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going on midnight when a motorcycle courier raced into the high-walled palace grounds, roared past the Moorish sentinels, and delivered the text of the Tripartite declaration. "It is hoped," London, Washington and Paris had broadcast, "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful...