Word: soberness
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...Harvard freshman says, looking forward to his first Yale game, "If God had meant us to be sober, he wouldn't have invented The Game...
...narrative is set forth in more than 700 remarkable objects. These run from Isaac Oliver's exquisitely realized miniature of three reflective siblings of the Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor...
Consolidated Foods is a sober, respectable name for a consumer-products conglomerate, but none dare call it mouthwatering. Accordingly, executives of the Chicago-based company (1984 sales: $7 billion) decided to rename the firm Sara Lee, after its familiar frozen cakes, breads and pies...
...Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped into a stupor. The next day, claimed Neznansky, Gorbachev denounced his friend's drinking before the Komsomol. As a result, said Neznansky, "Gorbachev promptly became the new Komsomol organizer, and that's when his path to the Kremlin began...
...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...