Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, and served as his chief of staff when Reagan was Governor of California. During Senate confirmation hearings for his State Department post, Clark showed an almost shocking ignorance of foreign affairs. (He could not, for instance, name the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.) But his sober and congenial performance at State has impressed his colleagues, particularly Haig. Clark is also a longtime friend of Meese and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, both of whom were his deputies during the California statehouse days...
...When Warsaw radio first announced the casualties at Katowice, it described the killing of Poles by Poles in words of anguish. "Let us lower our heads in silence to honor the victims of yet another Polish tragedy," declared the announcer. "Let the bloodshed in Silesia cause the provocateurs to sober up and make the madmen realize that the road to confrontation leads nowhere." Some diplomats in Warsaw were convinced that those words had been written by Jaruzelski himself out of an obvious worry that his unseasoned young army might lose control of the situation. As Poles faced their bleakest Christmas...
...Virginia drew up plans for a society of good fellowship and spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before it had sent an emissary north to Yale and Harvard. This month in Cambridge, Mass., the Alpha chapter at Harvard...
...Pakula is a true stylist, a man who sees the world through a slow-panning lens darkly. For him, the corridors of power are menacingly dim and hushed, and by forcing the audience to dwell on his paranoid vision of that maze, the director commands a certain sober respect...
...were the seminars a replay of the rallies of the Viet Nam era. "During the 1960s we were concerned about our boys who were dying overseas," explained U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Don Kalish. "Now I'm concerned about myself. It's much closer to home." The discussions were sober and sobering, providing a detailed depiction of a nuclear holocaust. Said Howard Hiatt, dean of Harvard's Faculty of Public Health: "I think the medical realities are not clearly appreciated by those who talk about winning or surviving a nuclear...