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From his years on the platform, Teacher Barzun draws one sober conclusion: teaching-properly done-is one of the world's hardest jobs. "An hour [of it] is certainly the equivalent of a whole morning of office work. . . . Sabbatical leaves are provided so you can have your coronary thrombosis off the campus...
Said Hal George in sober summary: "A serious mistake has been made, and it cannot be justified...
...studio, is man-bites-dog news. Instead of sweetening up Betty Smith's exuberant best-seller and furnishing ten sure laughs for every carefully shock-absorbed tear, such ex-New Yorkers as Tess Slesinger, one of the writers, and Elia Kazan, the director, have turned it into a sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly...
Vanguard tanks of the Red Army were less than 40 miles from Berlin. But chicken-counting optimists got a sober reminder at week's end from smart Paul Winterton, Moscow correspondent of the London News Chronicle, who cabled...
...kind of face that was more disquieting when it smiled than when it was sober. Over the years it had slowly changed. In Stalin's youth his face had been delicately handsome, but revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength. The hair, which had been purplish black like most Georgians', and grew far forward on the low forehead, had turned grey. The eyes, which had once peered out from velvety depths of unfathomable distrust ("Lenin trusts Stalin," old Bolsheviks used to say, "and Stalin trusts nobody"), had acquired an expression almost...