Word: somberly
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...there have been two competing versions of the little wooden guy's story: one headquartered in Italy, where people rightly regard the original as a work of dark genius; and one in the U.S., where generations raised on Disney's moody animated gem don't even know a more somber version exists. So when Italy's biggest star, Roberto Benigni, chose Pinocchio as the follow-up to his triple-Oscar global hit Life is Beautiful (1997), fans of the pinewood protagonist wondered which Pinocchio would show up on their screens...
...crowd sat silently for a moment, then filed out to share their memories of Gould at a somber but celebratory reception...
...Michael Miller, the 6-foot-4 former Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) executive chef known to colleagues and friends as “the gentle giant,” was memorialized yesterday at a somber one-hour service in Memorial Church that drew more than 150 people...
...ceremony was simple. There were no celebrity performances, surprises or speeches full of rhetoric—just the somber reading of 2,801 names...
Twenty years ago, when most current undergraduates were still spitting up their mother’s milk (then still-uncontaminated by transgenic proteins) the relationship of the University to for-profit biotechnology companies was the subject of somber faculty meetings and cautious pronouncements by former University President Derek C. Bok. Although the relationship between the faculty and the biotech industry is less strained than it once was, the problems of actually building companies has not gone away—and those problems illustrate why Summers’ comparison to the electronics industry that grew up around Stanford University...