Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters. Freshman Michael Albion gives a sensitive portrayal of King Leontes, using his monologues to reveal his characters' insecurity, blind rage, and pompous narcissicism. Maryann Bergonzi as Paulina and Pamela Knickrehm as Hermione, two local actresses, give superb performances. Bergonzi stands out with her exquisite enuncition and her somber, melancholy, yet determined facial expressions. Two more freshmen--Tucker McCrady as Florizel, King Polixenes' son, and Laurence Bouvard as Leontes's long-lost daughter Perdita--perform on the same finely-tuned level as the professionals...
They descended to a "heroes' welcome" that was everything public ceremonies in Cuba usually are not: brief, somber and quiet. An artillery corps band belted out a few revolutionary hymns, and women militia members goose-stepped across the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport. But President Fidel Castro, attired in tailored green fatigues, his beard noticeably gray, said not a word in public. He simply shook hands with the wounded, who apparently had been told to say nothing; several seemed too dazed to speak in any case, and one barely conscious man on a stretcher failed to recognize the Cuban...
...from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $2 million, the amount of the bribe.* At one particularly somber moment, Judge Okada looked directly at the former Prime Minister and sadly noted that his actions had brought "irreparable damage to the public trust in politics...
...mood was more somber at the 1962 Dartmouth game. President Kennedy had announced his blockade of Cuba a few days before: the Russians had not yet responded. More than a few of us wondered if we were watching our last football game. The Band's reaction: to announce that President Pusey had declared a quarantine at the Harvard goal line, instructing that any Dartmouth player with an offensive weapon be forcibly seized. In probably the most dangerous week of the world's history, we had our first laugh--at the Commander in Chief's expense...
Kennedy announced his decisions on television to a somber nation and found that nation overwhelmingly behind him. Perhaps David Heffernan, a Chicago school official who listened to the speech in a crowded hotel lobby, best expressed the American mood: "When it was over, you could feel the lifting of a great national frustration. Suddenly you could hold your head...