Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency is becoming a target at which all manner of men are taking potshots, helter-skelter. I see inherent in all this a cancerous growth that could spread and stifle the true spirit of Americanism-which embodies constructive criticism, yes, but which also is based on sober consideration, mutual understanding and due respect for another person's judgment...
...fact is that Arosemena sober has done a surprisingly good job with Ecuador's backward economy. One-third of the country's 4.7 million people are Indians living under conditions little better than their Inca ancestors; the average per cap ita annual income for all Ecuadorians is just $167. From 1956 through 1961, the country's gross national product inched ahead at a painfully slow 1% a year. During the Arosemena administration, it jumped to 2.5%, still less than the annual population increase of 2.8%, but at least a move in the right direction. Banana ex ports...
Author Nixon has done a superb job, gives life to her whole cast of characters, and appraises their actions with a strong sense of history. Even in her sober telling, the Calas case sounds like a cri de coeur. Popular history has too often dismissed Voltaire as an acerbic and with drawn pessimist. But in l'affaire Calas, he was supremely heroic in a dark and dangerous time, and Mrs. Nixon sees to it that his memory is well served...
...book, published in 1956, was mean as "a sober assessment of small boy when left alone," according to its author. Although he said in such an allegory "all hell will break loose with no constraints," Golding remarked that a reader's mood at the end of Lord of the Film should be "sober, thoughtful, on the whole optimistic...
Roth's second book involved the boldest sort of risk taking. Letting Go is a long, complex novel about the entanglements of two of those songless goliards, the young university instructors. It is sober and often solemn; with a self-confidence approaching bravado, Roth refused to use in it the skill at satirical pastiches that had glittered so brilliantly in Goodbye, Columbus. "I had done that," he said recently, "Why do it again...