Word: somberness
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...turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became the magazine's most somber instrument...
...that constitute Black Visions contain both of these elements. Son//; is an old Mississippi woman's soliloquized lamentation. She tells and mimes the bone-wearying troubles of her existence, a Beckettesque journey from nothingness to oblivion. Gloria Foster makes a triumph of this taxing role through her unremittingly somber presence and power. The next two playlets, Players inn and Cop and Blow, are set in a bar, the gaudy aquarium of tropically colorful sharks who prey mercilessly on the vulnerable fish of the ghetto...
...Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of 55, he was already a legend. It was only natural that when his friends, loved ones and musical kinfolk gathered in New York's Carnegie Hall the next year to pay him tribute in song, their mood was not entirely somber. It was also touched by a joyful awareness of the continuing life in Guthrie's music...
...parade sponsored by four New Hampshire and Maine Snowshoe Clubs. Each club was represented by a marching band dressed in tunics. Robin Hood boots and beanie caps in the two technicolor shades of their town--purple and orange, fuchsia and black, mauve and tangerine Watching the tired, somber 6 ft. 4 in. Muskie, attired entirely in black from his Russian cap to the circles under his eyes, move into the midst of the Snowshoe groups to shake hands one might properly ask. "Who was the wiseacre film director who spliced Boris Karloff in with the munchkins of the Wizard...
...Blood. The new church-state relationship reflects broader changes in Catholicism itself-changes that have swept away the feudal image of the Spanish church that persisted from the days of Philip II. Gone, except on the grandest feast days, are the somber rows of mantillas that once filled cathedral pews. In their place are bare heads, wispy dresses, blue jeans, even miniskirts. As in other Roman Catholic churches around the world, the liturgy has been modernized. Women and children now pass collection plates. Worshipers sometimes help themselves to the Communion host. Guitars and drums accompany new Spanish hymns...