Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back from his vacation in southern California, President Eisenhower met the somber group of Cabinet members and aides who trooped into his White House office at 8 a.m. last week. Among them were Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting...
Almost extinct in these troubled times is the breed of college professors who, against the somber stereotype of their profession, are, nevertheless, capable of achieving the rare combination of a sense of humor with a sober pursuit of knowledge. One man who has discovered the recipe for just such a blending is Earl Latham, Visiting Professor of Government from Amherst, who regularly presides at the gathering of Government 135 where he dispenses his collected does of cynicism on party politics in America...
...mystical revelation reinforced Savonarola's conviction that the church must be reformed. The following year he began the first of his jeremiads on the iniquity of the church, and this time no one was bored. For five years, he developed his somber theme in preaching missions throughout northern Italy. In 1490 he was back in Florence, and the words rang out: "I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter...
Although Jacobson's prose occasionally becomes sonorous with ringingly repeated phrases, at its best it is quietly excellent. The collection has its soft spots-notably a story pointedly titled The Stranger, which tells, in the manner of Camus at his most somber, of a rich man, cut off from society by a standard brand of spiritual malaise, who comes to a strange town to die and melodramatically does. But the high spots outnumber the soft ones. In a class with Nadine Gordimer (Six Feet of the Country, A World of Strangers), Author Jacobson, 30-year-old white South African...
...Hole Card. In somber anticipation of this train of events, many of Europe's pundits had already dismissed the Geneva meeting as "the useless conference." But most of the Western diplomats directly concerned believed they held at least one strong hole card: Nikita Khrushchev's seemingly overriding desire for a summit meeting. Trading on this, the U.S. had already served indirect notice that any Russian move during the conference to shut off Western access routes to Berlin, or even to sign a separate World War II peace treaty with its Communist East German satellite, would result...