Word: somberness
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...first success with a group of pictures illustrating the life of John Brown, others describing Harlem and the Deep South, and then two series based on his service in the Coast Guard. In 1949 he voluntarily entered a mental hospital for therapy, emerged with the makings of a somber group entitled Sanitarium. His latest series, on view at a Manhattan gallery this week, is a contrastingly lighthearted view of the entertainment world. A standout in the show is reproduced on the following page...
Colonel Tibbets remarks once, parenthetically, that although he does not approve of mass atomic destruction, it is necessary to speed the ending of the war. One of the few less somber scenes in the film (and one based on an actual incident) has Mrs. Tibbets-mistaking an atomic scientist at Wendover for a sanitary engineer and having him repair some plumbing...
Against such somber lovers, the play sets a rich old blind lady who finds happiness in the teachings of a jolly, messy apostle of The All-Effulgent. Very possibly these two, like Eliot's silly "assistants" in The Cocktail Party, symbolize a serenity unknown to prideful intellectuals; but they are easier figures to envy than emulate. In any case, the young couple themselves seem less to acquire faith than have it thrust upon them, while the final curtain has less of a spiritual air than the customary romantic...
David Beyer, a comparative newcomer in Harvard music circles, gave a piano recital Sunday afternoon that was, in nearly every respect, competent and satisfying. His touch was sufficiently heavy and sold for the more somber passages of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Handel, but he could also produce the light, fragile tones so necessary for his group of Scarlatti sonatas...
...Manhattan office because "I can get more work done when I'm alone." He has no social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many friends and no particular friends. I have business associates...