Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Mantle had been sober for more than a year, 42 years of drinking caught up to him on May 28, when he entered Baylor Medical complaining of stomach pains. On June 8 he received a liver transplant that outraged those who thought, incorrectly, that he got preferential treatment...
...remains one of those artists whose work--no matter how familiar and often reproduced it has become--comes up fresh whenever you see it. This diffident son of a Nyack, New York, dry-goods merchant had a long working life, almost all of it in America, and a sober style, some of which came from France and particularly from Manet and Daumier. One of his few public utterances--in 1927, to the effect that "now or in the near future, American art should be weaned from its French mother"--used to be taken by cultural America-firsters as a manifesto...
...alcoholism is a disease for which abstinence is the only answer. Most adherents also believe they will never recover but instead will always be "in recovery." Though many who feel they have been saved by A.A. cannot explain exactly how or why it works, they do believe they stay sober by helping others stay sober...
...number of younger members do not dispute that they are in A.A. for different reasons. "I definitely think there is a split," says Rusty, 27, who has been in the program eight years. "The difference is what it's like being sober between the ages of 19 and 27 instead of coming in at 50 with a marriage, a job and a mortgage. I don't know a lifetime of disappointment and pain. My friends who came in at 18 and 19 have had incredible success. They get better jobs, and they move on. [Older members make you] feel...
...book sales, continues to expand, and now has about 700,000 members outside the U.S. In some places, its uniquely American flavor takes getting used to. "The first time I read the Twelve Steps, I thought, 'This is pure imperialism,'" says Slava, a Russian woman who has been sober for more than five years. A South African member who attended last weekend's San Diego convention said the only place there was no apartheid in South Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country...