Word: somberness
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Mannix's tale of thwarted friendship a sweetly somber...
...incident received national attention when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that Robert J. Myers, deputy commissioner of Social Security, had said the administration "changed" unemployment projections submitted in January by Eckstein's firm, Data Resources, Inc., to paint a more somber picture of the Social Security system's future...
This spring, as usual, assorted elders have been capped, gowned and summoned to daises across the U.S. to try to say something wise, important or at least heartfelt to the year's 1.3 million new college graduates. Their collective mood was somber, reflecting anxiety over the arms race, education and the Government's new budget. Some speakers used the campus rostrum for political oratory. One university, Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, N.J., chose not to have a speaker. Instead the students called in Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, creator of bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin...
...darker fairy world than we're used to. Epstein uncovered hidden streams of conflict--between fairy and fairy, fairy and man, man and woman--with the aid of Purcell's fine-woven Baroque score. These emphases, however, were just that; there were no placards. Costumes and sets had a somber beauty. No one could have left the Loeb feeling Shakespeare's text had been tampered with or betrayed...
...somber mood extended last week all the way to Cannes, where key industry figures from around the world gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...