Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong stuff, and Director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's) does not dilute it. The liquor flows hard and fast, and the scenes in the alcoholic ward are guaranteed to take the lining off a sober spectator's complacency. Then and always, Lemmon's portrayal is easily the most intelligent, intense and complex performance so far accomplished by an actor who started out as a light comedian but apparently can do darn near anything he pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation...
...Central Government now fluttered over the Katangese Defense Ministry. Sixty civil servants and 120 Congolese army officers arrived from Leopoldville to take over Katanga's military remnants and administer postal service, telecommunications, customs and immigration. As resident minister, Leopoldville's top man in Katanga would be slight, sober Joseph Ileo, 40, a moderate who served as interim Premier of the Congo after erratic Patrice Lumumba was deposed...
...heart had been lighter while he lived, they would have played Didn't He Ramble? as they marched away from the cemetery. But John Casimir was a sober man, and when he was buried in New Orleans, the surviving members of his Young Tuxedo Brass Band left his graveside in silence...
Witnesses Michael L. Silves '65 and Hendrik Hertzberg '65 last night corroborated Roberts' claim that both he and the student arrested for drunkenness were "manhandled" by the arresting officer. Silves also told the CRIMSON that Roberts was absolutely sober...
Last week the group had decided that future meetings would be held at Cronin's, hut--after a petition was circulated by members who claimed that this site was not conducive to a "sober consideration of the issues"--a special meeting was called last night to reconsider...