Word: somberly
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...chorus of souls in limbo shuffles about the stage, awaiting reincarnation. Their doubts and frustrations are chastened by the Archangel Gabriel, effectively sung by Bass-Baritone William Dooley. The music, first sketched around World War I and completed later, has more lateromantic intelligibility than Erwartung, but it is so somber and static that one eventually wants to cry out with the chorus: "Is it really to go on like this forever?" Yet there is a moving finale. Soprano Janet Northway, as a soul who is dying into a new life, slowly ascends a series of platforms, singing an eerily ecstatic...
...once rapid to the point of being jumbly, has become measured. His speeches are no longer strewn with the preppy ("fantastic") or jargony ("power curve") phrases that bombed in New Hampshire. Harder to measure, but more important, his bubbly optimism seems to have changed into a more tempered and somber attitude. Though he still laughs easily with the press, his comments to reporters these days often have a hint of asperity. At last week's joint press conference with Reagan, Bush told a questioner: "I'm not going to get nickel-and-dimed to death with detail" about his differences...
There are more awkward juxtapositions. Camelot is sometimes historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...
That dream of economic strength has never materialized. Viet Nam today is a somber country where austere militarism remains a way of life. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss and Photographer Dirck Halstead, who both covered the Viet Nam War, recently spent 17 days in Viet Nam to assess what has gone wrong-and what is going right. De Voss 's report...
...middle ten days of May declined 30%; worker layoffs passed the 300,000 mark for the first time last week; and imported cars now command an unprecedented 27% of the domestic auto market. In Detroit, a town once noted for a cocky, can-do attitude, the mood is somber. Says Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "There's more at risk in the auto business now than there has been for a long time. Maybe ever...