Word: somberness
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...garlands in honor of Apollo or Aphrodite, her deep cry of sorrow at the death of her son, her compassion for the oppressed and bereaved, and her elemental protest against war would have been understood by all the women who lined the walls of Troy. For Kollwitz' images, somber though they are, are reflections of everywoman...
...theather by presenting Chekov's The Anniversary and Sartre's No Exit on the same program. Both plays are one-acters, but there any parallel between them ends. The Chekov piece is a mad little farce, while the play by Sartre, though also billed as a comedy, is a somber and complicated essay in philosophy. The two dramas, however, do not leave behind an impression of conflicting moods, since the production of No Exit all but eclipses that of its companion...
...turned out to be a 75-minute work of massive and somber effect, full of vocal know-how and modern coloration, but weak in dramatic contrast. In most of the first act Joan prepares for her fatal final appearance before her inquisitors, and a kindly priest beseeches her in mellow song to temper her heresy. Its moment of pathos comes near act's end, as Joan refuses to exchange her male clothes for a dress, and the episode closes with music of real poignance. Act II moves more swiftly as Joan clashes violently with Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the only...
...early days of Bolshevism, leading women Communists tended to be of two kinds: either freewheeling intellectuals like the handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
...ceremony that so moved the world's figure-skating champion began with a fanfare of trumpets. Flags of 32 nations were raised above the rim of the Olympic stadium. Somber Swiss in grey lounge suits snapped to attention. Apple-cheeked Dutchmen bobbed orange tassels on their caps. Prim Japanese in blue blazers stood stiffly with blue-belted Russians and a U.S. contingent that sported red, Russian-style fur hats over their snappy white duffel coats. Uniformed Turks were a solid blob of black...