Word: soberness
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...many of his attitudes, especially when he got to musing about sex, virtually an arrested adolescent. It also camouflaged facts that Hitchcock judged inimical to commercial success: that he took himself seriously as an artist, and that almost all of his work addressed itself, metaphorically, to the most sober existential questions. To use a clich?ppropriate to a man of his girth, he was determined to eat his cake and have...
...until the public stops thinking of prison as a symbol and begins coldly assessing what prisons can and cannot accomplish. A good deal of expert thought has already been devoted to the question. In 1973, for instance, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals concluded a sober review with this recommendation: "Prisons should be repudiated as useless for any purpose other than locking away persons who are too dangerous to be allowed at large in a free society...
...Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...
...Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority, Powell chronicles the metamorphosis of the "Division of Education," which limped through the first 20 years of the century under the burden of unending criticism, into a respected graduate school. The saga, one of bitter disagreement and jarring philosophical gyrations, provides a sober backdrop for the current dissatisfaction with efforts to improve American education...
...just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted by no less an institution than the U.S. Government...