Word: sobering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was a sound and sober analysis of the results of the NATO meeting (see THE PARIS CONFERENCE). The leaders of NATO had agreed unanimously to arm the Atlantic Alliance with history's most powerful weapons despite the Kremlin's threats that this could bring their extinction; they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination...
...booting out tainted unions-the Teamsters, Bakery and Confectionery Workers and Laundry Workers-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. chiefs at Atlantic City did indeed show a sober sense of responsibility. But when it came to "broad economic and social responsibilities" in collective bargaining, it looked as if labor's leaders in 1957 had not pushed very far beyond A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), who once summed up labor's economic philosophy for his day in a single word: "More...
Peace Voter. In 1954, Lleras gave up his plush OAS post, returned to Bogotá as a private citizen. Talking and writing, he made himself the sober advocate of truce in the passionate political war, of a return to political sanity. Then, flying to Spain, he sat down amicably with exiled Laureano Gómez, once furiously hated by all Liberals, and persuaded him to agree to the essentials of a plan for sharing power between the parties. The truce, giving promise of responsible civilian government in the future, played an important role when the present caretaker military junta took...
...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...
...ROOTS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM, by Theodore Draper. The first volume of an important history by an ex-Communist who has both the objectivity and the dogged patience to tackle the subject. No joy for the casual reader, it offers a sober account of Communism's lust for power, and of the incredible nonsense involved in Communist theory...