Word: somberness
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...well known that the New Deal stirs up class consciousness in the economic sense; President Roosevelt's own speeches are permeated with such appeals. However unfortunate appeals to economic class consciousness may be, an appeal to race consciousness has possibilities even more somber...
...remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break of day, for example, is represented by the somber heavens' splitting along the lines between the stars and falling to the earth in chips, to have a bright sky in their place...
...Yale team practicing on Sunday. What a horrible thought? Right in New England, where Puritanism and conservatism still hold sway and John Harvard with his somber garb still is the traditional caricature of the population--right here in New England I say, the Yale football team was practicing on Sunday...
...gallery and handclaps from a few delegates by branding the Soviet Union as the universal betrayer of religion. "Their churches in Russia are abandoned and fall in ruins," cried Dr. Motta. ". . . Communism dissolves the family; it suppresses individual initiative; it abolishes private property. Russia is afflicted with the somber curse of famine...
...early stages absinthe produces an agreeable feeling of intoxication. By its continual employment the character becomes changed. To the brightness and gayety of the first effects succeeds a somber brutishness. What is worse the descendants of absinthe drinkers suffer from the sins of the fathers...