Word: somberness
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Here it is, early March under the somber skies of Cambridge, and the weather god has been particularly kind to the Harvard men's crew team. March came in with what was a pretty sorry excuse for a lion, and February was a down-right pussycat by comparison...
This might seem like the darkling prologue to a swellingly somber theme. Will 'German Playwright Hildesheimer offer us fresh insights into Mary's vaulting ambitions, her untempered will, her vulnerable femininity and her invincible Catholicism? Or will he move us by limming the last pathetic hours of a woman at the mercy of a woman who knows no mercy, Elizabeth I? Neither. Hildesheimer believes that history is an obscene irony, an absurdist fable signifying nothing. His prelates, earls, doctors, ladies in waiting and greedy hangers-on vary so little from the monarch that they are all like cards...
Despite the economy's surprisingly strong performance in the last three months of 1980, when it grew at a 5% annual rate, the short-term outlook for the U.S. economy is somber. TIME'S board foresees another year of stagnant production and rising prices in 1981. Interest rates, which rose to more than 20% last December, continue to hurt seriously the all-important housing and automobile industries. The result: the output of goods and services is expected to drop by about .5% in the first half of this year. Concluded Greenspan: "The economy remains weak, and the numbers...
...Idyllic Davos, Switzerland, hardly looks like a place for a somber meeting of Europe's business leaders. Although it was the setting for Thomas Mann's moody masterpiece The Magic Mountain, Davos is better known as one of Europe's most fashionable ski resorts. Yet every year top executives trek off to Davos for the European Management Forum, perhaps the world's most high-powered business convention. Last week 450 Europeans, including Heinz Duerr, president of the West German electrical firm AEG-Telefunken, Corp.; Gordon Stevens, a director of Unilever Ltd.; and John Raisman, Deputy Chairman...
...days passed, however, the public mood turned more somber and then angry as the released Americans began to tell their families and U.S. officials about the cruelty they had endured during their 14½ months in Iran. No one sounded more outraged than Jimmy Carter, whose final days as President and first days as a returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians...