Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listening." Sometimes to his advisers, he would demand, "Say that again: What does it mean?" If an adviser strayed from the discussion at hand, the President would cut in, politely but crisply, "That's not the problem at the moment." Annigoni's judgment: "He seemed very calm: sober but not at all pessimistic. A realist, I think-a man who sees things as they are." It was this Kennedy, alert, responsive and concerned, not the grinning campaigner, that Annigoni tried to catch. "He didn't smile very much while I was there," said Annigoni...
...That sober view of the limitations of power and authority is far removed from Kennedy's campaign oratory, which often seemed to suggest that any problem could be solved if only enough vim and vigor were brought to bear on it. Kennedy promised a "New Frontier" to "get America moving again." He soon found that it was tough enough just to keep the old problems from getting out of hand...
...thousands of Shinto shrines across Japan last week, sober-faced girls in white robes and vermilion skirts practiced the stately postures of the ritualistic Kagura dance. Musicians wearing eboshi (ceremonial headgear) thumped out an accompaniment on wooden drums, played the ancient ceremonial songs on reedy bamboo flutes. At Tokyo's huge Meiji shrine, the 190 fulltime staff members and 100 temporary helpers put in twelve-hour days cleaning up the building and consecrating tiny religious symbols for sale to worshipers. The week-long New Year's festival-Japan's most important religious event-was coming, and Shinto...
Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
...beggars. In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs. Cairo's luxury hotels, once playgrounds of wealthy Egyptian society, now accommodate mainly cruising tourists, and the gaudy belly-dancing nightclubs have been toned down by the sober military regime...