Word: somberness
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...Congressional Joint Economic Committee has called U.S. unemployment "intolerably high," and warned that it poses an even greater threat than inflation to continued prosperity. President Johnson likes to glow about the future, but he becomes somber when he speaks of unemployment. Last week, while pointing to "gratifying" gains in employment-now at a record 70,169,000 jobs-the President said: "There are still too many of our people unemployed. We need to create a substantially larger number of jobs before we will be satisfied...
Peripatetic Life. The somber, tense, darkly attractive Argentine seems especially attuned to the melancholy moods of Chopin. Throughout most of the contest and even on the day of her triumph, she wore only black. Both her parents are officers in the Argentine diplomatic corps, and their peripatetic existence during her early years afforded her the opportunity of studying with a variety of noted teachers. After winning two international competitions, making a highly successful tour of Europe and an excellent first recording, she curiously retired from playing in public and all but gave up practicing. She resumed her career just...
Last week "Frau Professor" Wallmann's 127th production, a three-act spectacular, Clitennestra, by Italian Composer Ildebrando Pizzetti, had its world premiere at Milan's La Scala. Musically, the work was something of a dud-somber, repetitive, unnecessarily difficult to sing. But as exciting theater, the bloodthirsty Agamemnon legend is hard to beat, and Wallmann did not try: instead she moved her chorus in a plastic combination of Greek tragedy and modern ballet, guided Star Soprano Clara Petrella in a performance of icy majesty, and won unanimous critical acclaim for what Milan's Corriere d'Informazione...
...seemed always the same, suspended for a brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum majorettes, to humming cocktail parties, wriggling teenagers, somber prayers, to ear-shattering brass bands endlessly playing Hail to the Chief, to laughter and cheers, to sentimental squeezes and unashamed tears...
...most Washingtonians, that was an unsettling prospect. The Washington Post labeled the building's style Aggressive Eclectic, "because it has a surfeit of everything." A more apt description might be Mussolini Modern. It squats, like a huge, somber, white-marbled mausoleum, on an 8.3-acre plot, 700 ft. distant from the House wing of the Capitol. Four stories high, it is H-shaped, flat-roofed, contains three-room office suites for 169 Congressmen and their staffs (the other 266 Congressmen are housed in the old New House and the old Old Buildings), as well as nine standing-committee rooms...