Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went dutifully through his routine as the shutters clicked. After the two had gone, Kennerly was summoned back to Ford's desk. There stood a somber Ford with Aides Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. "We have taken a vote," pronounced Ford. "We have decided to replace you with Candy Bergen as White House photographer." The laughter filled the Oval Office and Jerry Ford was ready for more work...
...chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters of compositional style he is essentially fatherless. No one teacher, composer or school of thought can be said to have created him. The higher...
...pretty thorough examination of the entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...
...anything but the standard State of the Union speech. Instead of congratulating himself on the achievements of his young and troubled Administration, Gerald Ford adopted the somber tone of a wartime leader calling for an all-out effort to repel the enemy. Instead of skipping lightly over a broad spectrum of national and foreign policies, the President concentrated almost exclusively on specific means to counter the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, the nation's almost 14% rate of inflation and the U.S.'s dangerous dependence on cartel-controlled foreign oil. Displaying the blunt candor that is his most...
...months ago, Nyerere had a somber message for his people. "We have no money and we have exhausted our foreign reserves," he declared. "If we do not have adequate rains, we will be faced with serious famine in which people will die." Drought and flood have ravaged the country for two years. Unless the rains that begin in March are normally heavy, the country will face the specter of widespread starvation...