Word: somberly
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...kind of virtuoso performance Reagan had demonstrated his mastery of in the campaign: it was low-keyed, somber in places, and direct, as he called "for an era of national renewal," while warning that many of the problems besetting the nation, especially inflation, would not yield to quick solutions...
...election by a landslide and was welcomed to office last week with a blare of trumpets and the bells of rejoicing at the freeing of the American hostages. But Ronald Reagan's honeymoon is likely to be somber. He inherits a nation that is bleakly pessimistic about its own situation, anxious about inflation, skeptical about solving any of its major problems quickly and much less confident than it was four years ago when Jimmy Carter took office...
Learned articles were written about the hazards of splitting White House authority between Ed Meese and Jim Baker. The idea of a super-Cabinet committee, of collegial decision making, drew somber sighs from Harvard to Georgetown. Editorial pages choked with warnings about the confusion, cost and delays in the transition...
There were somber reminders, however, that Poland's workers could not expect to wrest many more concessions from the government and the party. In a front-page editorial, the official party daily Trybuna Ludu warned that "the new year will not greet us with prosperity; the decisions to be made will not be accepted by everyone with equal satisfaction." Even New Year's Eve, in fact, was celebrated with unusual sobriety-and without live music. Demanding overtime, the country's pop musicians refused to perform at state-run restaurants and nightclubs...
...frustrated Americans were permitted to see only a fleeting-and heavily edited-TV film clip of 16 of the hostages meeting the monsignor and three Iranian clergymen. There was no sound track. While a few of the Americans appeared to laugh or smile briefly, the general mood seemed somber. Americans at home could only wonder: Why were there no voices? How did the hostages really feel? Where were the others? Fears in the U.S. grew again...