Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this phrase that literally means novel with a key−a story whose characters are modeled on real people. The roman à clef, a reader is tempted to answer, is ticktacktoe with a one-move handicap. Naturally there is more to it than that, and the question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only the form the bestselling novel takes in 1976 but the symbol of a rather shoddy...
Doctors, social workers and psychologists have generally agreed that for alcoholics the only road to recovery and a sober life is total abstinence. In fact, Alcoholics Anonymous, which has an excellent record of rehabilitating heavy drinkers, defines an alcoholic as a person who can never drink again. Last week that abstinence concept was boldly challenged by three social scientists from one of the nation's best-known think tanks, the Rand Corp. In a report to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (N.I.A.A.A.), David Armor, J. Michael Polich and Harriet Stambul claimed that many former alcoholics...
...American Civil Liberties Union, and it is now in their hands. If Manhattan Cable does not rectify the situation, we will sue." Manhattan Cable's Jones has said the company would "welcome" legal clarification, and the suspension of Blue is "a temporary move designed to contribute to a sober examination of the issues." She told the subcommittee she hoped that "sober examination" would result in the removal of "any liability from the cable operator and shift it to the producer...
Behind the lighthearted banter was a grimly sober realization: every time Ford loses a primary, Kissinger is bound to get some-or much-of the blame. When the President lost the North Carolina primary, for example, his confidant Mel Laird and his campaign chairman Rogers Morton both remarked that Kissinger would not remain in office much longer. After the more critical setbacks in Texas and Indiana, Kissinger was under even greater fire from a number of top Republicans and White House aides...
More than ever, Walker still refuses to take himself seriously for very long, and his off-beat humor runs through most of the songs. Some of them don't make much sense, at least when you're sober, like "Public Domain": "Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic...