Word: somberness
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...shown "favoritism" toward Estes. Hales also dropped hints that he had been shunted to another job in the department, and denied access to the Estes files, because he knew too much about the case. Hales's transfer led to one of the unseemliest scenes ever enacted in the somber corridors of the Agriculture Department. Miss Mary Jones, a nervous spinster of 51, who had been Hales's secretary for eleven years, was upset about the prospect of being transferred to a new boss. After being out sick for two days, she came back and went to Hales...
...Overriding Issue. The one somber theme that cropped up at most of last week's meetings had to do not with dividends or profits but with the uneasy relationship between business and Government in the wake of the steel price battle...
From there, the Secretary began prepared text, "I need not tell gentlemen, that the world situation very serious." Fidgeting with his rarely looking up from his speaking undramatically and times inaudibly, George Marshall went into a somber description Europe's losses--"the visible destion of cities . . . factories, mines, roads . . . long-standing committees, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping "--in short, the--"dislocation the entire fabric of European economy...
...letters Heth, Teth and Jod the great, impersonal majesty they must have. Part of the trouble lay with the women's weakness and faulty pitch; otherwise the chorus gave the Latin text an admirable portrayal. But because the closing Jerusalem did not reach the massiveness it needs, its contrasting somber ending had little finality...
...moonstruck liar in a life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have none; I am alien to life, I am lost in still water." So, most of the time, is Author Barnes. And even Nightwood suffers from that most irritating offense of difficult writing-the mysterioso effect that hides no mystery, the locked box with nothing...