Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This somber announcement was greeted with what Pravda called "spontaneous demonstrations of the Russian workers and peasants." In Tiflis, capital of Beria's home state, "the entire Georgian people" was said to be condemning the traitor for "sowing poisonous seeds of distrust of our great brother Russian people...
Three Weeks to Go. Ike's speech gained for him-and the U.S.-new influence on the world's somber thoughts of war and peace (see INTERNATIONAL). That evening, Ike went aboard the Columbine again and headed for Washington and one of the biggest jobs his Administration has faced: final preparation of the program which he will present to Congress in just three weeks. His Administration and the Republican Party, the President has solemnly stated, will stand or fall on that program...
Randall Thompson's Symphony No. 3, which filled out the program, seemed to be quite uneven. The opening largo elegiaco begins with a somber, compelling string sequence that later blends subtly with more agitated material. The orchestration is sometimes sharply contemporary, sometimes comfortably old-fashioned, but there is always an inner logic to this movement (and to the next one) that is almost relentless in its forward motion. Thompson, however, does not seem to sustain these feelings. The last two movements, if heard out of context, would be quite enjoyable; there is a nice, smooth melodic line in the third...
Seen across a room, the picture looked rather like an abstraction. Somber in color, it had a surging quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait...
Alan Steinert, President of CCA, paints a somber picture of Cambridge without PR. "Primaries will produce disinterest on the part of voters. This is true of all primaries I've heard of People will just not vote twice...