Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much modern fiction is literature of escape-from class, race, creed, country, or even the sex in which the writer was born. The disadvantage of the escapee is that he is obliged to change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...
...difference between the headlines on the Supreme Court's historic decisions and the thousands of words of the rulings themselves was the difference between instinctive applause for the principle of civil rights reasserted and sober second thought about actual results achieved. All told, the opinions documented the new concept of the court's functions as laid down by Chief Justice Earl Warren. TIME this week sets forth the gist of the decisions, analyzes their individual and collective importance, notes the dissents and feeling of dismay, and brings a reminder that the court is composed...
...have been producing a lot of lather in the pop-music business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
...only firsthand, sustained view of what manner of man runs the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The view bore little resemblance to the popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions on See It Now (TIME, Jan. 7), Khrushchev played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions...
...rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...