Word: sober
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second episode is a sober bit of flashbackery-an unmarried girl (Maj-Britt Nilsson) recalls, between labor pains, the lowlife who led her wrong. She remembers brooding in her room, when a note slid in over the sill: Will you open your door a little? She did, a little, and sat on the floor beside it. A glass of wine was pushed through the crack. She accepted it, and soon a small and very silly sculpture appeared in its place. She cradled the carving, and her reticent suitor started a Bergman serenade: "Just now my love is without end; Eternal...
Then the G.O.P. had some sober second thoughts. To Honolulu as presidential representative had flown Lyndon Johnson. The Vice President, describing Berlin as the most serious challenge "on the darkened world scene," called on both parties to unite behind President Kennedy's foreign policy, "especially when our Communist adversary is strong, united, disciplined and on the march." For the sake of world opinion, the Republicans joined in a unanimous vote of support for the President's Berlin policy. In the same spirit, they dropped their plan to embarrass Democrats further over civil rights. "We had a choice," explained...
...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...
...disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have won it for the Republicans, had he wanted to, but his policy was to prolong the conflict rather than win it at the price of involvement in a general...