Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrictive format, the score trades on subtlety rather than splash, deftly plays the wistful mewings of the string quintet against the dense harmonies of the orchestra, intertwines exquisite vocal patterns like a kaleidoscope turning in slow motion. Brilliantly performed, Requiem was distinctly modern but never abrasively atonal, a somber, moving prayer celebrating man and his God. For Josephs, 39, the success of his Requiem marks him as one of Britain's most promising young composers. He is something of a late-bloomer, he says, because to support himself he had to supplement composing with his career as a dentist...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale about a futuristic society that burns books has been reworked by France's Francois Truffaut into a mild, gay little film starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie as two 21st century "radicals...
...judge from such disgruntled commentary, the holiday season is not what it used to be in U.S. magazines. Good cheer has given way to gloom; the champagne has gone flat. Santa Claus has been replaced by a somber psychoanalyst with a bag full of cures for year-end anxieties. It would almost seem that publication schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale of a futuristic society where reading is forbidden has been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) into a strangely humorous, coolly competent little film that stars Oskar Werner as a book-burning fireman and Julie Christie as both of the women in his life...
SPAIN, A HISTORY IN ART by Bradley Smith. 296 pages. Simon & Schuster. $30. An explosion of color that richly and often wittily tells the complicated story of Spain's long journey from obscurity (TIME, Jan. 21). The somber Iberian chord is struck again and again-in El Greco's haunted saints and cities, Goya's grim disasters of war, processions of penitents flogging themselves and one another. Appropriately, the final plate is Picasso's brush drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...