Word: soberness
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...must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...
...Louis Symphony. Founded in 1880, this orchestra is the country's second oldest (after the 140-year-old New York Philharmonic) but is still youthful by virtue of its many young players. Building on the legacy of sober, European conductors like Vladimir Golschmann and Walter Susskind, St. Louis has come into its own as a tightly disciplined ensemble under the impressively gifted American conductor Leonard Slatkin, 38. Like the Chicago Symphony, which it resembles in style and flair, the St. Louis Symphony is at its best in big pieces, but of a more recent vintage: Rachmaninoff's orchestral...
...Sober again (and sober still), he made more money, but, as his wife Joyce observes, "Bob and money don't get along. One time we had a Cadillac and an airplane, but I didn't have a cup that matched a saucer...
...series of highly visible acts, literary and personal, performed according to what he took to be the imperatives of the moment: write a book, direct a film, run for office, put up your dukes. History, Mailer said in 1980, "is not history, but a series of immensely sober novels written by men who often don't have large literary talents, and have less to say about the real world than novelists...
...sober moment, he decides that Willett is Falstaff and that he, Brodie, is Prince Hal, about to come of age. What better place to reach maturity than on a spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...