Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SELF-BETRAYED, by Joseph Wechsberg (301 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). Czech-born Author Wechsberg often patrols the same prose beat as Tyrolean-born Ludwig Bemelmans; on it the major misdemeanors are underdone Wiener Schnitzel and overdone Central European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a somber, loose-jointed documentary on the rise and fall of a big party wheel in Communist Czechoslovakia. Wechsberg's Communist hero-heel is named Bruno Stern, but his career closely parallels that of the late Rudolf Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged...
...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home to whoop it up mildly at a private party with his four sons and three daughters. His day was distinguished by a bit of merriment unheard at the somber rites for Wilhelm Pieck. Ordinarily a somber man himself, the Chancellor laughed appreciatively at a gift from Agricultural Minister Heinrich Lübke (whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany...
...diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix of murder, assassination, conspiracy and intrigue that has been Soviet official life in the last 30 years, Vishinsky, a man of non-proletarian origin and a onetime dissenter, not only survived, but built a brilliant career for himself...
...minutes of music to commemorate the orchestra's 25th season of CBS broadcasts, used the letters CBS as his motive (he jimmied the letter S into the scale by using its phonetic spelling, Es, which, in German, also means the note E flat). The music was brassy, somber and overwritten, and seemed to be just getting under way when it stopped...
...Yale News, overly optimistic three, four, and five weeks ago, has now taken on a somber tone. Noted its Sports Editor Monday morning: "Maybe--and this is how we would explain it--Army took too much out of us. One thing is sure--unless the Elis turn in a much better performance this week, Harvard is going to win its first undisputed Big Three title since...