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Just walk down to Dillon Field House and look at the walls. Row upon row of somber looking 20-year-old New England men. Over 100 years of pride (and ugly uniforms...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: A Desperate Plea to the Powers That Be | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...making any victory speeches last week in Amsterdam, where more than 11,000 scientists and other experts gathered for the Eighth International AIDS Conference. The mood was somber, reflecting a decade of frustration, failure and mounting tragedy. After billions of dollars of scattershot albeit intensive research and halfhearted prevention efforts, humanity may not be any closer to conquering AIDS than when the quest began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invincible AIDS | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

Harvard lost its next five games and seven ofits next eight on the way to a somber 6-20 record...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Year of Contenders, Not Titles | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...musical accompaniment is indispensable to creating the mood and atmosphere of the play and at times even adds a lilting humor to its somber plot...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Banquo Meets Brando In Innovative Macbeth | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

These spasms of violence form the somber theme of Jazz, but most of the novel consists of riffs and variations. Different voices materialize, sometimes disembodied, sometimes belonging to casual onlookers or to the principal characters themselves. The narrative glides between the present and the past, to the rural Virginia of the 1880s, where Joe and Violet met and from which they eventually migrated to the magical place they call the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Riffs On Violence | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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