Word: soberest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oval Office debut, Eduard Shevardnadze demonstrated that he had already mastered the institution of the White House "photo op" that precedes even the soberest diplomatic sessions. "The reporters are on the offensive," the genial Soviet Foreign Minister told Ronald Reagan. When asked by reporters what message he would convey to his host, Shevardnadze quipped, "If I tell everything to you, what am I going to say to the President next...
...novel's implications reach far beyond the topical or the social. Erofeev's alcoholic innocence is ultimately a spurious from of escape: "I have seen the world close to and from a distance, from within and from without, I understand it but I cannot accept it...I am the soberest man on earth...