Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black and white seem particularly appropriate to the Norwegian contemporary of Ibsen, Edvard Munch. The great expressiveness, the somber, even frightening quality of his colors-that-are-not-color blend with Munch's main preoccupations: death, passion, loneliness, and anxiety. As he noted in his diary, "No more painting of interiors with men reading and women knitting. They must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled...
...tell this somber-hued tale, Composer Poulenc abandoned surrealist shiftiness and the brassy pyrotechnics which once made him the rage of the Left Bank. The new work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered walls to the reverberating streets of revolutionary Paris. The opera's most touching scene occurs in Act I, when the Carmelite Mother Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent...
...eyes of Dallas, Texas were upon its Jews last week as they dedicated a new synagogue that ranks with the most impressive in the U.S. Brown brick and somber on the outside, surrounded by twelve acres of brown gravel parking space, on the inside Temple Emanu-el sparkles with stained glass, gold, green and blue mosaic work, and a curtain of shimmering metallic cloth in front of the Ark. The temple, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue, cost its Reform congregation $2,000,000, stands on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate...
Accompanying the widowed Nehru: his daughter, slim, somber-eyed Indira Gandhi, 39, mother of two sons, who acts as India's first lady. A political name in her own right, she is a member of the topflight working committee of India's big Congress Party, and only woman member -by an overwhelming vote-of the party...
...last week, a green and white 1954 three-hole Buick sedan came to a gentle halt and an elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes shone steady and intense...