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Star-Schlock. Rosewater feels the same way when he is sober, although he finds it necessary to note that most science-fiction writers can't write "for sour apples...
Although the Great Southern experience left Ryder "more sober and more thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium...
Doubtless, Director Dino Risi wished to reveal the two faces of the church as well, but the sober editorial is out of keeping with the film's farcical style. The jests are painfully arch (says a prelate to a Vatican telephone operator: "I'd like to speak to St. Paul. Minnesota, that is"). But the jesters-ah, that is another story. It always is when Mastroianni and Loren combine...
...calm carries little serenity with it, which may be just as well. Instead, it suggests a complex of rather sober fears; of joblessness, of radical violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...keep local munitions workers sober during the Great War, the government of Lloyd George expropriated a brewery in the north of England and severely restricted drinking in its chain of 450 pubs. When a British travel firm's Belgian parent company was seized by the Nazis in World War II, the government of Winston Churchill assumed title to Thomas Cook & Son. By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines...