Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before 5 p.m. close to 500 juniors field quietly into the courtyard. Above them society members, all dressed in sober grey flannels with black ties and gold tie, pins, took positions at Branford windows, ready to direct their tapping colleagues below...
Amedeo Modigliani was handsome, sensual, tuberculous, and usually drunk. He hit Paris at 22, soon started a spree that death stopped in 1920, 14 years later. Sober hours he devoted to painting and a little sculpture. His artist friends, including Soutine, Brancusi and Utrillo, thought him great. His acquaintances thought him accursed. The police thought him a nuisance, closed his only one-man show because the nudes in it were so frankly sexy. The public never thought...
After the watch, Richard and two others play hooky and head for a swim. The shift from the atmosphere of the chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards...
...parallel problem stems from the fact that only a small portion of each committee's work could be televised. The group that decides which portion will be televised holds a dangerous power over public opinion; again the tendency would be to favor dramatic accusations over the more sober refutations...
This time the committee kept strict order, and the two lawmakers got a sober hearing. They had ideas on a range of subjects...