Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's more sober appraisal of youth is based partly on a striking demographic fact: America is growing older. There are proportionately fewer young people than in the 1960s. In that decade, as a result of the post-World War II baby boom, the age group of 14 to 24 expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates...
...thousand Harvard students sober or energetic enough to crawl out of bed at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning for the long trek over to the Business School field, standing around three deep in the rain or the cold was a small price to pay to see Harvard's superbly-turned soccer machine roll over its opponents week after week...
...sober efficiency typifies the proprietors of Mickey Mouse, it also marks the inventor of the Bunny, Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury reports. "I was surprised to find Hefner such a serious, business-minded person," he says. "We met in a second-floor conference room of the famous Playboy Mansion and talked for nearly two hours, and there were no girls or hedonists around...
Hefner reacted much more cautiously. The night after the decision was handed down, he called a sober-minded meeting of his top editors to discuss its possible consequences. Though Hefner insists that "nothing we have published would even remotely fall under the ban of the Supreme Court's decision," he also adds-somewhat inscrutably-that "we're going to have to find some satisfactory middle ground...
Reports a recent visitor: "There are always people floating in and out of there-friends from Rye, people they know in New York." Contrary to some reports, Mitchell stays sober, never drinking liquor until evening and then consuming perhaps a couple more than his customary two predinner Scotches...