Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown County in Autumn had "written itself," he said, "just like any song that I compose." It was melodic "because I'm a melody man and I've always thought there should be a little more melody for the average symphony patron." It opened with a slightly somber daybreak. The music went into full action with the purples and reds of the leaves, rose to a peak in the description of the yellows, then slowly died away...
...lack of funds; but the Modern Language Center was conceived as a student activities center for one small segment of the University. The clubs that hold their meetings there now formerly met in the Houses, which meant a constant moving around. Berrien calls Phillips Brooks House "too somber." The Center is bound to remain just that so long as Berrian, an interesting and interested man, is in charge. He wants nothing big. His crying need at the moment is merely for a piano
...that was too loose and bare to be properly described as a composition at all. There was nothing sunny about the level light that pointed up a shuttered window above the old man's head, and the sky beyond had in it more paint than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like...
Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...
...Abstractionist Oscar Dominguez has both. His big, somber Composition owed an obvious debt to his good friend and fellow Spaniard Picasso, but its loony, mountainous melee of animals and things was Dominguez' own, a jumble of the sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...