Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening-night reviews had a happy ending too. Said the News Chronicle: "The production is by no means a travesty. It is elegantly done . . ." The sober Times went even further with its approval: "Tate's version affords an interesting peep into the Age of Reason, and the long, leisurely, sensible century that followed . . . The additions are in authentic baroque, as curled and complacent and conventional as the peruke...
...Archbishop of Canterbury wagged a stern finger at politicians. "Stick to the sober truth in speeches," he advised. "The temptation at election times is to overstate or even misstate the case . . ." He frowned on political talks which use quotations from the New Testament, "especially the words of Our Lord." Chances are that "words will be misapplied and their spiritual meaning distorted. In any case, there is the suggestion of trying to turn Scripture to party uses...
Dateline: Philadelphia. The new editor was almost his exact opposite as a personality. Sober, earnest Irving Dilliard, 44, an ex-Nieman fellow, has a schoolteacher's manner and a historian's mind. Dilliard is an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many...
Continentals call this tendency "dirigisme" it is increasingly unpopular on the Continent. The French, Italians and even the sober Belgians consider the British taste for controlled austerity to be somewhat perverted-what might be called economic masochism, or love of suffering. The British look down their noses and reply that their controls are merely good housekeeping...
...Commission cannot afford to remain silent on the ways and means of its policy. The Commission cannot dismiss these problems with a statement deploring indiscriminate smears. There is no question of the sincerity and sober principle of President Conant and his fellow Commissioners. But on this issue they now stand with men of little principle and no discernment, men who are attempting to stifle ideas and change our constitutional guarantees of civil liberties to suit their purposes. So long as President Conant and his colleagues refuse to discuss implementation, these men will be able to say: we have...