Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little discussion groups massed together that night in Marquette's new auditorium. Before long the debaters filed in, carrying large briefcases and wearing somber tuxedos. The wife of the Speech Director looked worried. "They can't be Harvard men," she said, "they look too young." But a man next to her argued they must be from the East because of their "tweedy overcoats." Reassured, they marched the debaters onto the platform and the Director rapped for order...
Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...
...four Foreign Ministers shook hands and left for home, the West Berlin Freedom Bell, donated by Americans as a tribute to Berlin's fight against Communist encroachment, pealed forth in somber tones across the snow-covered city that now was doomed to more years of division. The bell tolled for heavy hearts on both sides of the Iron Curtain...
...somber light played over Shiva and the reptile as the act swelled to its climax. Sprawling on the steps of the idol with the snake draped sleepily over her, Shiva shimmered the squints of her costume. From the balcony there were howls of approval. Shiva, apparently, was delighted. Disengaging herself from the snake she sprang to her feet, curtsied, and smiled a provocative "More?" at the audience. But before the balcony could respond, the maestro waved her off the stage...
...prize" is likely to met a jaded response. This accolade, which Miss Julie won at Cannes in 1951, however, rightly draws attention to a film which has received far less notice in this country than it deserves. The distinction of Miss Julie is not its evocation of Strindberg's somber drama, but an artistry in direction and camera-work which makes the film something of a technical masterpiece...