Word: somberness
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...Monstrous Abuse." The ruling Christian Democratic Party has repeatedly denied that there is any emergency, and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard angrily dismissed the student demonstrations as a "monstrous abuse." Still, many Germans were sufficiently shocked out of complacency by the protests to study anew the somber statistics cited by Picht, whose book, The German Educational Catastrophe, set off a national debate last year. "If the government and the [state] parliaments fail to act now," he warns, "one can already pinpoint who will be responsible for the third debacle in 20th century German history...
...foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although Bihalji-Merin, who is an art critic and historian, limits the accompanying text to purely artistic comment, the pictures themselves project an unforgettable image of a hard life in a stern and somber land...
...later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association President Lewis F. Powell Jr. declared that whatever else it may have set out to be, "Magna Carta now stands for many...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaperoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...