Word: somberness
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...their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than the glory. They are almost indecently at ease in the White House; nobody has told them what a somber place it is supposed to be. Though they may not reflect the substance of the Carter presidency, they are the living image of its down-home style...
Most striking, Carter on Monday night spoke in somber Churchillian tones of sacrifices for everybody-but by week's end the White House indicated the sacrifices would not be financial, and indeed the program would save consumers money. A statement issued Friday night contended that without the program the average family's energy bill in 1985 would be $1,367; Carter's proposals would cut that figure 16%, to $1,145. That contention is highly debatable: it assumes that conversion to coal would free "old" and inexpensive natural gas now burned by industry to flow to homeowners...
...nine black-robed Justices walked purposefully to their places at the U.S. Supreme Court bench last week, the ornate courtroom seemed even more somber than usual. Nine months before, the court had allowed the imposition of the death penalty for murder. Now it was being asked to permit capital punishment for crimes in which no life has been taken. The state of Georgia was seeking permission to electrocute Ehrlich Anthony Coker for the rape of a 16-year-old housewife...
...show at Manhattan's Pace Gallery (through Feb. 12), Dine once again deals with a commonplace object-a bathrobe, which he has painted over and over again with the persistence of Monet inspecting a lily pond. But the mood has changed. At 41, Dine has become a more somber painter, and a more ambitious...
After Senator Pat Moynihan introduced his fellow New Yorker as a man by whom the CIA "will be well served," the slender, bespectacled Sorensen took over. Looking grim and even more somber than usual, he read a vigorous ten-page rebuttal of what he called "scurrilous and personal attacks." When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper and began reading from it. "It is now clear," he said, "that a substantial portion of the U.S. Senate and the intelligence community is not yet ready to accept as director of Central Intelligence an outsider who believes...