Word: somberness
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Among the fast-proliferating journals that report on assorted scientific specialties, few are even remotely comprehensible to the average layman. And many a literate scientist admits to being all but stupefied by their jargon-filled contents. One notable exception among such somber publications is the sprightly Worm Runner's Digest, which serves up its well-edited and important scientific papers along with side dishes of humorous satires, poems and cartoons...
Opera is enjoyable, she says, "but I could have sung six concerts in the time it took to rehearse Julius Caesar." In a recital, the rich tonalities of her deep velvet voice come to full bloom, lending breadth and a somber ecstasy to a Mahler song, a wry twist to a Hugo Wolf lied...
...muddied pictures that reflected some kinks in the engraving process. Here and there, the makeup seemed out of whack. A write-up of city firemen's beefs found room in the women's pages; on the first page of the second section, four humorous columns surrounded a somber piece about women convicts. Such gaffes only reflected a first-week confusion. "Those stories were in type," explained Conniff. "We simply had to put them somewhere...
...middle years can be wise and felicitous, they can also be foolish and frantic, fraught with nerve-frazzling doubts and despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called...
SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The light, the colors and the fruits of Italy are brightly evoked by a great modern Italian poet, but his musings on his fellow men are somber. The translations faith fully reflect the poet's spare, luminous language...