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...Chicago, Thor Heyerdahl, who rafted his way to fame with the South Seas voyage of the Kon-Tiki, said that he was planning another expedition, "less spectacular and more sober-minded," this time to South America...
...whole, the Advisory committee has done a good job, as intelligent a job as could be expected from a group of its nature. The group has tried to keep a sober, balanced perspective on the problems of censorship, and by its very existence, perhaps prevents other more vicious forms of censorship from being set up. Various members, in fact, have recently been called upon to lobby against House bills which attempted to deal with the exact situation the group handles...
...sample, he chose the one he liked best: a solid architectural study of St. James's Chapel at Warwick, England, based on an old lithograph. Ike painted it with an engineer's careful eye to the details of masonry and buttressing. Ike's colors were sober browns, reds, blues. In the distance, he had sketched in four black-robed clerics...
Businessmen greeted the Republican victory with sober optimism. They all expected the G.O.P. to bring a more favorable political climate for individual initiative, and for business in general...
...fully realize that through evoking the full power of the motion picture "Birth of a Nation" placed the film on the same level with the press and stage as a provocator of arguments. It is so powerful that harm may be done if it is shown indiscriminately without a sober discussion of its social implications. We do not endorse the theme of this film. We do not approve its biased attitude. Its message of racial superiority is repugnant to our national ideal of racial equality and to all fair-minded people. There are historical inaccuracies and exaggerations in the depiction...