Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawn seaman, a seething 50-year-old giant named Harwar, plans to dynamite Car after it reaches the States. In the book's terms, the scheme seems justifiable. Harwar is strong, and though he is an alcoholic, he has been off the sauce for seven months. He stays sober for nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel. But Hayden is a rueful realist, and the book's conclusion allows no romantic vengeance. The great, evil ship still floats, Harwar is stony drunk, and he and his dreams of social justice drift...
...trying to avoid controversy by allowing the University to dispose of faculty members it did not want. In either case, their opposition to her policies would have been a burden to her sooner or later, and for Southern, it is not tension which develops a department, but rather, the sober acquiescence of the faculty and students to the policies of the chair. With the departure of Isaac and Fontaine, the department suffered a loss, and the administration gained a partial victory in its attempt to restrict and re-define the perspective of the department...
Despite its generally light touch, the new Catalog broaches some fairly sober issues. A thoughtful chapter on how the deaf can build a rewarding religious life outlines a sign-language worship service. Another section, on blindness, includes a Hebrew alphabet in braille. Other entries grapple with the ethical problems of premarital sex, contraception and abortion, trying to adapt the stern proscriptions of the Torah to more modern attitudes. Jewish divorce laws, for example, are weighted heavily in favor of the husband, making it difficult for the wife to start proceedings. The Catalog suggests ways to balance the inequality. "The important...
...review board did a very important and highly successful job educating itself and exercised sober judgement," Wald said...
...helped by an exchange of nationalistic incidents earlier this year. A few days after an Aeroflot official in Washington was arrested on a charge of drunken driving, a Pan Am employee in Moscow was accused by Soviet police of the same offense-even though he was cold sober. His case is still pending, presumably awaiting the outcome of the case against the Russian...