Word: solemnizing
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...available: a recording of the Solemn Requiem Mass in Kennedy's honor, another entitled His Finest Hour...
...resolved by theological studies. Thus, the Pope in effect agreed to establish a dialogue between the two churches, which Orthodoxy had proposed at a conference at Rhodes last fall. Then, in a spirit of joy and brotherhood, the two men summoned their retinues to join them in the solemn chanting of the Lord's Prayer...
...Trumpeter Snooky Young and Guitarist Freddy Green are all heartfelt blues soloists. Bassist Buddy Catlett, the band's newest member, gives the whole orchestra a subtle and highly advanced sense of rhythm. Keenly aware of all these virtues, Basie never lets his audience get a glimmer of the solemn musicianship behind them. "Now a little foot-pattin' music," he announces happily. Then he sits down and sizzles away into the glass-toned jazz arrangements his band alone can play...
Last week the 27-year-old comedian returned to work for the first time since the assassination, opening an act with all-new material at Manhattan's Blue Angel-the nightclub where his Kennedy routines first left the ground. Standing there with a solemn face and looking for all the world like a Kennedy, he went through an incredible variety of material, test-piloting everything from topical one-liners to complicated parables, seeking something that would click...
...pity's sake, spare us that indignity, and pass on to the one who did the most to turn that tragedy into a kind of solemn triumph: our First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy...