Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British authorities refused to blame blacks as a group for causing the riots. Police Commander Alex Marnoch, whose district includes Brixton, charged that "the criminal and hooligan element took advantage of the situation for their own ends." That sober assessment might be applied to the authors of senseless violence in both countries...
...before his arrival in France. The General Secretary took part in an extraordinary hour-long interview with three French questioners, which was broadcast in both the Soviet Union and France. The session revealed little that was new. In a 20- minute opening statement, Gorbachev, who cut a sober, dark-suited figure while seated behind an ornate Louis XV-style writing table in the Grand Kremlin Palace, struck the broad themes of his upcoming trip. He lauded recent Soviet arms-control initiatives and declared that "we are ready for other radical decisions." He even invoked De Gaulle as a source...
...with Indian art, the riches and their antiquity are beguiling. The collection is most complete in painting, reflecting Exhibition Curator Stuart Cary Welch's scholarly specialization in Mogul miniatures. They range from court assemblies to bloody scenes of hunting, from frolicsome glimpses of improbably colored animals and gods to sober, documentary official portraits. Among the more memorable: a kittenish lion sensually rolling his back paws in apparent pursuit of his swishing tail; a stampede of combative horses, whose armed riders look dwarfed and almost incidental; a 17th century Deccan woman, jeweled and draped for display rather than mobility, feeding...
...Harvard's policy, as it took shape this year, is certainly sober. In his 1985 annual report, President Bok issued a modest, moderate assessment of the effect of computers on education, and administrators, department heads and faculty members have relied on the "bottom-top" approach to computerization, only expanding upon demand, not as a policy...
...Harvard's policy, as it took shape this year, is certainly sober. In his 1985 annual report, President Bok issued a modest, moderate assessment of the effect of computers on education, and administrators, department heads and faculty members have relied on the "bottom-top" approach to computerization, only expanding upon demand, not as a policy...