Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is in marked contrast to the Festival's only other production of the work, which John Houseman directed eleven years ago. In 1959, we saw an impressively sober and severe version, which underlined the profoundly serious content to be found in the text. Make no mistake: not everything Shakespeare wrote into the play was a laughing matter. As its title suggests, the work is among other things a study in the ethical question of whether the end justifies the means. It also explores the essence of personal honor, the proper nature of marriage, and the relative importance of worth...
...sober fact, only a portion of those who work in business districts need to be so near to one another...
With this sober explanation, the staid British science journal Nature published a paper by a Cambridge University scientist who has reached a remarkable conclusion: the rate of growth of the male's beard seems to be related to his sexual activity...
...other side of the scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
...them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds. If he can perform these functions he is fit for the road. If he cannot−in three tries−the tester shuts off for a half-hour, giving him time to sober up before another attempt...