Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could defy my instincts, learned behavior and common sense and jump off that tower while sober, it would be a supreme act of free will, proving once and for all that I was my own person. If I could do this, I truly could do anything...
...parties because I enjoy the company I keep and the people I meet. What does it say about your attitudes towards the people you're dealing with when you feel you have to artificially shed some inhibitions in order to enjoy their presence more than you could while sober...
...natural to wonder how Ma stacks up next to his most celebrated predecessors, Pablo Casals and Mstislav Rostropovich (both of whose complete sets are currently available on EMI). Casals' classic performances, originally recorded between 1936 and 1939, have a sober grandeur that continues to seize and hold the ear six decades later; the Rostropovich set, recorded in 1991, is a larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these...
...stone-washing. In other cases, the resemblance is strong enough but not striking; are we looking at the middle-aged man's younger self, or his son? In a minority of cases, there is hardly any resemblance to speak of. Throughout, tough, meaty fellows seems to have aged into sober, tender dads. Awkward introverts are now captains of industry...
...agreement) passed it on to the Reporter. I did not see the interview before it went into print. If I had, quotations from it which have appeared in TIME could never have been imputed to me, since they contain opinions which I have never held, and statements which no sober man would make and, it seems to me, no sane man believe. That statement that I or anyone else in his right mind would choose any one state against the whole remaining Union of States, down to the ultimate price of shooting other human beings in the streets...