Word: somberness
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...Bill Don Moyers, the young deputy director of the Peace Corps, was lunching with Texas Democratic bigwigs at the elegant 40 Acres Club in Austin. At 12:42 a waiter summoned him to the phone. Minutes later, a somber Moyers returned to the table. 'The President has been shot and is believed dead," he said. "The Governor has been shot and is critically wounded. The Vice President is believed to have been wounded." Instinctively, Moyers, a longtime protege and former aide of Lyndon B. Johnson, raced off to a chartered twin-engine Cessna and flew to Dallas...
Today South Viet Nam throbs with a pride and power, above all an esprit, scarcely credible against the summer's somber vista. Government desertion rates have plummeted and recruitment is up, and it is now the Communists who are troubled with rising defections. Some roads are being reopened for the first time in years, and the much-vaunted Viet Cong plan to move into their mass-attack "third phase" is now no more than a bedraggled dream...
Before the President was wheeled off to the operating room, Moyers-an ordained Baptist minister-led Lyndon, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci in prayers. Then, down corridors guarded by somber marines and Secret Service men, the President was moved to the 40-ft-by-20-ft. operating room, with Moyers trotting alongside. Three Secret Service men in surgical masks and gowns scrutinized the operation. A fourth guarded the door of the operating room, while others were positioned throughout the building. The operation went as smoothly as anyone could have hoped, even to the removal of a ragged ¼-in. kidney...
ROSSINI OVERTURES (Deutsche Grammophon). These brief episodes are gems that rank with the wisest and wittiest works of Mozart. In them Rossini displays a full range of musical motifs, from somber reveries to brilliant marches with a Pied Piper fascination. Tullio Serafin conducts the Rome Opera Orchestra with elegance and exuberance...
...Body. Manning follows up the poems in the Atlantic with an affectionate reminiscence. His piece is full of Hemingway's familiar posturing and pseudo-profundities. "You know," Papa solemnly told Manning, "all the beautiful women I know are growing old." But Manning reports one conversation that sheds somber light on Hemingway's writing as well as on his eventual suicide. Brooding over his high blood pressure and spreading paunch, Papa doubts that a writer can function unless he is in top physical shape. "Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted...