Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snow. Half a century before the Impressionists, Constable was fascinated by the effects of light-in particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes...
every poem is open, and not closed, to all the winds of the spirit and the world; and the poetry of Ungaretti has always communicated to me a freshness, a free air, of boundless light and the persuasion of a voice both moved and moving . . . so sober, so precise with his phrases, so concise amidst the silences of white spaces...
...mitigate the annoyance of a rather long ride. The bus drivers, however, were considerably less amused and once at the destination they emulated a good number of their passengers and many became totally inebriated. The bus company, which shall remain unnamed here, sent out another busload of more sober replacements to man the return trip. The Jubilee gala, by the way, was an unparalleled and certainly a most unique success...
...audience that three studies showing that LSD causes no chromosome damage will not be coming out in current medical journals. (He further informed the audience that a University of Washington study comparing the effects of marijuana and alcohol on driving and showing that stoned drivers were indistinguishable from sober drivers was refused publication by the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...noon today about 1200 insane people are going to line up Hopkinton with the sober intention of running 26 miles and 385 yards. The occasion for this lemming-like stampede is the 73rd Boston Marathon...