Word: somberness
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...visiting a drug treatment center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and had sent a crudely written letter to Loeb castigating Muskie. By week's end Morrison had not been found. Reporters who had accompanied Muskie to the center recalled no such incident and agreed that the Senator had appeared somber and deeply moved by his visit to the center...
Just as poetry can predict suicide, so it can also provoke it. That, says Psychiatrist Jack Leedy, president of the Association for Poetry Therapy, is one danger of the method in unskilled hands. Reading somber verses with upbeat endings can help unhappy patients by demonstrating that "others have been depressed and have recovered," but despairing poems may deepen the feelings of hopelessness. Psychiatrist Rothenberg cites another danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists...
...girl replies, or at least that is what the translator says. One of the visitors speaks up. "If we had asked that question in America, she would have said she wanted to grow up and get married." The answer is translated and it has an odd effect. Instantly the somber expressions of the girls vanish; they laugh among themselves...
Across French TV screens flashed the handsome face of Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. For once Chaban didn't look like the golden boy of French politics. Somber and severe, he appeared, reported Le Monde, like "a wounded...
...they Hory quick-drying." Working at an extraordinary pace, De Hory finished in time for the picture to be flown to New York by the middle of last week. Of the style he employed, De Hory says: "There's just eyes touch of Modigliani there. The mood is somber, and the eyes are cold - the eyes of that calculating side to his nature that Cliff tries to hide...