Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins with your decision to go and, certainly it continues as a sharp memory for the rest of your life. Each man can treat the adventure in retrospect as he wishes, whether that be by philosophizing boasting, or remaining sober about it, for it is, ultimately an extremely individual experience...
...Supreme Court's ruling on prayers in New York public schools was the subject of sober editorials, ecclesiastical pronouncements and heated conversations-and universally over looked by all concerned was a crucial footnote in Justice Black's majority decision. Quoted in "To Stand as a Guarantee" in THE NATION...
Even though he is president of the nation's largest bank holding corporation and earns $100,000 a year, Maurice Stans is a moonlighter. Once a week, he addresses himself to trends in business and Government and turns out a newspaper column that makes sober sense. Measured by the mail he brings to the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Syndicate, Stans is more popular than any of his flashier colleagues...
Richard II is the first instalment in Shakespeare's tetralogical study in the essence of the art of kingship. The play is not people with good guys and bad guys; it is a sober study in greys. Richard's downfall is, perhaps, not really tragic (for one thing, he enjoys it too much); but it is pathetic. The true tragedy is that almost all the characters, mixtures of good and bad, are by their circumstances prevented from making the most of their innate potentialities. They are the right people in the wrong place or the wrong time. or both...
...grown-up boy who has ever talked with the other fellas in the locker room has heard tales about B-girls-those satin cheats whose barstool love costs a fortune in fake champagne and broken promises. But last week the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee began a sober study: "What do you mean by 'B-drinking'?" asked pious Chairman John McClellan. In four days of outraged testimony, he learned the whole old story...