Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their terrain is the fresh green land scape of ancient pastoral, replete with somber mountains, gloomy caves, anthropomorphic rivers. They sing not of ordinary men, but of lovers, amoebae, angels, village rustics, swans, emperors, unicorns. And their music is an eerie compound of British and U.S. folk traditions. Indian ragas, rock, calypso, blues, even nursery songs...
After ten days during which 16 explosions rocked the mine and turned its tunnels into blast furnaces of flame, gas and smoke, Consolidation Coal Company's Number 9 in Marion County, W. Va., was sealed last week. That somber decision made the mine a tomb for the 78 men missing in its depths. But company, government and union officials agreed that there was no other way to save the burning mine-and that the trapped men below were almost certainly dead from fire or gas, or both...
Moscow's crematory hall echoed with the somber notes of Chopin's Funeral March as the group of 200 mourners stood around the open coffin. They listened quietly as a tall, ramrod-straight man, his voice choked with emotion, eulogized its occupant. Suddenly, the cavernous hall's public-address system crackled out a brusque announcement that the group's time was up. Then, before more than a handful of mourners had been able to plant a parting kiss on the dead man's forehead, a woman in a black smock slid a cover...
Campaign Manager Larry O'Brien's Irish eyes were not smiling. Speechwriter Ted Van Dyk, ashen and somber, had lost his usual cockiness. Their man was not conceding. "I feel sufficiently at ease," said Humphrey, "that I want to get a good night's rest." But, like Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, he was heading for bed only to awaken and discover that voters in California (and Illinois in 1968) were electing his opponent to the presidency...
Many New Yorkers shared that somber view. The city's plight, of course, was not one of physical survival-though some cynics argued that New York's complex ills could only be cured if the metropolis were razed and rebuilt. Its breakdown this fall was one of spirit and nerve, a malaise that affected the tacit assumptions of trust and interdependence without which no organism so vast and disparate can possibly function. In what most responsible citizens concede to be one of the ugliest situations in memory, strikes and the threat of strikes pitted not only union against...