Word: somberly
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...eight-story garage for visitors, two churches and 21 chapels. Each of the latter has a bed for grieving friends and relatives. Explains Architect Dy-lardo Silva e Souza: "Who wants to spend the night in the kind of cemetery we have now?" Another feature: soothing but somber background music, 24 hours a day. "We can't play sambas in a place like this," says Silva e Souza...
...either agreement or disagreement. "I used to go about in spats. They were wonderful things. They kept your ankles warm and your socks clean. The real name was spatterdashers, you know. They were rather a dressy thing, and you looked quite nice in them." He continues in a more somber voice: "It's very curious being out-of-date. I'm rather stuck with a world that doesn't exist anymore. I shouldn't think there's a Jeeves in England today...
...week long banner headlines told of the ferocious battles. Yugoslav television carried filmed reports of the fighting and a somber briefing by a major general on each day's action. One big Zagreb daily put out a special battlefield edition for the troops...
...Attica tragedy than a dedication ceremony held last week for Georgetown University's new law center, a few blocks from the Supreme Court building. The guest speaker was Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Preceding him, Alfred F. Ross, president of Georgetown's student bar association, reflected the somber mood of Burger's audience by making an impassioned reference to the prison riot and its aftermath. "What happened at Attica," he said, "was not merely a senseless and brutal massacre of men whose lives had already been unspeakably mutilated and wasted. What we witnessed was but the latest...
...exploitation of women, the trap of marriage, the dead weight of the Establishment, the isolation of the individual in the modern world-Ibsen's issues are once again the issues of the hour. But as his plays revive so do their somber ambiguities. To assume that the facts of an author's life inevitably illuminate the meaning of his writing is to commit the biographical fallacy; and in this huge biography-the first full portrait done since 1931-Michael Meyer makes that error on a grand scale. Even so, his book is the richest discussion of Ibsen...