Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their smoky, orange-red torches of bamboo and pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the unity they had found in their common peril, that they could celebrate amidst such desolation...
...policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...
...first success with a group of pictures illustrating the life of John Brown, others describing Harlem and the Deep South, and then two series based on his service in the Coast Guard. In 1949 he voluntarily entered a mental hospital for therapy, emerged with the makings of a somber group entitled Sanitarium. His latest series, on view at a Manhattan gallery this week, is a contrastingly lighthearted view of the entertainment world. A standout in the show is reproduced on the following page...
Colonel Tibbets remarks once, parenthetically, that although he does not approve of mass atomic destruction, it is necessary to speed the ending of the war. One of the few less somber scenes in the film (and one based on an actual incident) has Mrs. Tibbets-mistaking an atomic scientist at Wendover for a sanitary engineer and having him repair some plumbing...
Against such somber lovers, the play sets a rich old blind lady who finds happiness in the teachings of a jolly, messy apostle of The All-Effulgent. Very possibly these two, like Eliot's silly "assistants" in The Cocktail Party, symbolize a serenity unknown to prideful intellectuals; but they are easier figures to envy than emulate. In any case, the young couple themselves seem less to acquire faith than have it thrust upon them, while the final curtain has less of a spiritual air than the customary romantic...