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Word: soberness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important to both of them, as crucial to the administrative maintenance of their place in society as the hiring of the immigrant gardeners who keep the clouds of azaleas around the house in River Oaks blooming, as significant as the notices on the fences reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in Texas: Ostentation Meets Elegance | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...fortunately was soft enough to enable every singer to be heard clearly. All in all Candide is truly an ensemble performance, featuring an excellent chorts which shows the cruelty of this fallen world in its numerous appearances as citizen of various towns. Though Candide itself presents a rather sober vision of humanity this production represents the best of Harvard theater with its magnificent execution and wonderous gathering of some of the best undergraduate talent around. Everyone in the cast rises to Pangloss message that one can always strive for the best...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Best of All... | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

...even in baseball fans will be upset that the actions of a few will have taken away their ability to sip a couple of beers at the park while still remaining sober...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Take It Out of the Ballpark | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...colonial times everyone had to "wean modest and sober habit." "Strange ruffian like new langled fashions," including gold and silver were strictly prohibited...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

With all that translating, praying and donning of sober habit, students during Harvard's second century had little time for merriment. Fortunately, it was prohibited...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

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