Word: soberest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soberest reaction came from Harold Stassen, who announced that a group of eight distinguished soldiers and experts has been called to assess the implications of the Russian gambit. The advisory group would also try to find an answer for Russia's expected demand that the West match their reductions. To that expected challenge, Dulles recently provided a short answer in the form of an anecdote: A fat man and a thin man agreed to go on a diet; the fat man got healthier, the thin man starved to death...
...runners-up: Switzerland, 16 per 1,000 adults; Chile, 15; the U.S., 10; Australia, 6.7. Soberest of all: England...
...method is as difficult as his meaning. Readers of Fry's play have time to wrestle with both, but audiences do not. The play's shifting focus makes for a confusing psychological kaleidoscope rather than any clear philosophic light. And even at its soberest, Fry's seems a gift better suited to violin cadenzas than sustained organ music, to ladies who, in the end, are not for burning than to men actually thrust into the fiery furnace...