Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than reeling with the excitement of rebelling against the older generation, students today are much more sober about the problems, Smith says...
...morning after the speech, Dole opened the Senate (old habits die hard), then lit out for the territory--first stop, Chicago. He boarded the plane in his Senate uniform, dark suit, starched white shirt, sober tie, and then--Honey, get me wardrobe!--emerged in Chicago in khakis and open-neck shirt. "Quick-change artist," Dole quipped. Clothes make the new man. It was Bob Dole, Unplugged and Untied...
...resident of Washington, I don't know and I don't care if Marion Barry has reverted to his old habits of drinking and drugging. Stoned or sober, he is an embarrassment to the city and a hindrance to African Americans. He ought to do us all a favor and retire to private life...
...country must decide, in effect, how much it can risk on peace. To go with the imaginative Peres, many voters believe, means continuing the Arab-Israeli peace process at its current revolutionary pace, chancing that Israel will make concessions that may later prove calamitous. To go with the sober-minded Netanyahu means slowing the rapprochement to a less frightening speed, at the hazard of losing real opportunities to end the conflict...
...players must learn to deliver, say, a richer string sound or a brassier brass. That's why what is going on in San Francisco is creating such a buzz in the classical-music world. It has been just six months since Michael Tilson Thomas inherited the baton from the sober Swede Herbert Blomstedt, but already the San Francisco Symphony has undergone a transformation. Woodwinds dance merrily, the brass resonates nobly, and the strings speak as one; overall, performances crackle with newfound vigor...