Word: somberness
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...find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat." Some of Leto's decrees are variations on the Old Testament. Dune's religion, for example, outlaws computers as graven im ages of the mind. Throughout, his observations toll a somber truth: "Government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies...
Obsessed with losing his virginity and seething with high spirits, he skips school frequently to shoplift in exotic West Berlin. Agee admires the ducktail haircut, listens to Chuck Berry on American Forces radio, and after flunking eleventh grade, is "tried" by his somber, adultlike classmates of the Free German Youth organization. He makes a final battle to unite with the masses: he finds work as a shipyard laborer. But Agee's fresh starts are doomed by an inner turmoil. His attempts at poetry, painting, music and love end in failure. Near the end of his endurance, his parents...
Presidential Aide David Fischer took over the telephone at the hospital to keep the line open. Secretary of State Alexander Haig called Baker on another phone to ask about the shooting. "I will keep you advised," said Baker. Two minutes later, Deaver was on the hospital phone, speaking in somber tones. Then Reagan's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, came on to deliver the bad news: the President had been hit after...
Under the softening April snow of Moscow, red and blue flowers make their first appearance. They are accompanied by a more somber revelation: three bodies, frozen for months, their faces mutilated, their fingertips removed: deleted corpses, dead souls. It is an unpromising beginning for Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko. But it is an auspicious opening for Gorky Park, the first thriller of the '80s with polish, wit and moral resonance...
Haig understandably is in an optimistic mood. For all his somber view of Soviet power, he believes that the historical tide is running against Marxism. He cites the poor performance...