Word: somberness
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...reminder in these somber times that cheers and manufactured banners and distance and speed mean nothing unless there's a human dimension beneath and beyond the spectacle. And that is the continuing shadow across the restless trail of Richard Nixon...
...began as a somber occasion-the memorial service for Columnist Stewart Alsop, a civilized man who succumbed to leukemia after waging an inspiring fight with his will, his wit and his body (see THE PRESS...
When he addressed his countrymen for the first time as their new President, beneath the crystal chandeliers of Queluz Palace outside Lisbon last week, General Antonio de Spinola looked more like a statesman than a soldier. He wore rimless reading glasses and a somber black dress uniform rather than the jaunty monocle and olive battle fatigues that have been his trademarks. "I am assuming my new mandate with a clear conscience," he said, "because I have never considered politics all that alluring...
...movie has a raucous undercurrent that is pleasantly disorientating. It is a serious social speculation, but never a somber one. Even if Director-Writer Wertmuller had wanted to take that tone, the fact that a great deal of the action occurs inside what is euphemistically termed a "house of tolerance" would have made any such design unworkable. Director Wertmuller is as much concerned with evoking pleasure as deprivation; her movie has abundant vitality, which sends it skimming successfully over its thinner portions...
...Barking Deer), and some-tunes acted as an interpreter between Montagnards and Vietnamese. The Rhade culture fascinated Rubin, and the villagers' perilous exposure to the more "civilized" Americans and Vietnamese saddened him: "I could see as early as 1962 that the Montagnards' time was running out." That somber perception became the dominant strain in his novel. Says Rubin: "The Barking Deer began as an antiwar satire but developed into an epitaph for the Montagnards, for all such folks everywhere...