Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African novelist Alan Paton, an outspoken liberal critic of apartheid, once declared: "I am full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...friend could have taken someone with him. What if on that night several years ago, he had wrecked the car of the sober driver he collided with and not the other way around...
...advocating people giving up what they want to do, but [we're saying they should] be more careful," said researcher Dr. Arthur J. Sober, associate professor of dermatology...
...Sober said tanners should use sunblock lotion, avoid the intense midday sun, or wear protective clothing while...
Perhaps Fellini, who like his stars is in his 60s, is copping a generational plea: "Our kitsch is better than your kitsch." Maybe he means for us to see the faltering but brave Amelia and Pippo as surrogates for himself, still worthy of sober interest, maybe even moral admiration, although the headlines now go to younger directorial stars. Certainly he insists on pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes...