Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is to be a dignified, sober, middle-class march, not just a protest," Hanson explained. "Our goal is a negotiated settlement in Vietnam, and we will attempt to offer constructive alternatives to the present U.S. policy," he added...
...terms of spirit, then, this was a great Fantastique, certainly closer to Berlioz' wild feelings than the sober accounts we usually hear. As impressive as its rare humor was the orchestra's exuberant virtuosity. And Yannatos built some tremendous climaxes, including the finale, which steamed tersely through some sixty measures. This conductor always brings sound, clear logic to his music, fused with a novel, meticulous baton technique. The audience (and perhaps the Orchestra) should watch him more closely...
...make a patient sick when he drinks." Metronidazole, for still unclear reasons, mounts a two-pronged attack, working on both the mind and the body. Like Antabuse, it can leave a drinker violently nauseated, but before that happens it cuts down on alcohol desire and helps to make a sober life more palatable...
...could do just that. "What is Left?" Booth asked himself. "A left is a group of people who understand that problems are communal and can be solved collectively," he responded with conviction. Mixing serious debate with a light touch, Booth can outline his goals in very sober, Swarthmorian terms and then sum it all up by saying, "I guess you might call it the art of Reading, Writing, and Left-Building...
Prodigy & Breakdown. Goethe's brilliance was evident early, and so were his problems. His mother, a gay young heiress with a wild gene of genius in her own disposition, strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...