Word: somberness
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Right after New Year 1974, Solzhenitsyn's 13-year-old stepson visited our apartment, disappeared into the bathroom and returned with a book that had been concealed under his clothing: The Gulag Archipelago. The book was a shattering experience, evoking a somber world of gray camps surrounded by barbed wire, investigators' offices and torture chambers, icy mines in Kolyma and Norilsk...
...second act, which opens with the cast among the audience, makes a deft transition with "Night Waltz" to the more somber songs that comprise most of the remaining numbers...
...solitude is broken in the final room where the tone abruptly changes. There, bold early 20th-century works dominate. The American artists abandon somber colors for brighter hues in works which are no longer constrained to the traditional landscape and portrait genres...
...media. When the poll was narrowed to specific news organizations and journalists (including the Wall Street Journal, Cable News Network, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Ted Koppel), several actually outscored the Pope -- and left President Bush far behind. Still, the overall decline in media credibility was enough to prompt somber newspaper reports. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN PRESS DIPS SHARPLY, SURVEY FINDS, headlined the Los Angeles Times...
Those hopeful words were reflected neither in the defense budget presented to Congress two days earlier nor in the somber assessments of some of the President's top advisers. Said a ranking defense official: "You could argue that a Soviet Union that has lost Eastern Europe, that feels it is under assault on the periphery, sees Azerbaijanis tear down the fence with Iran, has the Baltics trying to spin loose, faces unrest in the Ukraine, labor disturbances, and still possesses a marvelous military capability is a much more dangerous creature than we faced ten years ago under Brezhnev...