Word: soberness
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...special place. One does not need to be a historian to know how narrow his field of social vision was. He ignored the public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery. Most of his paintings are condensed sonnets in praise of the middle path, the sober life of the Parisian petite bourgeoisie, especially as embodied in his own household. He is said to have had a chirpy sense of humor, and there is certainly a sly and robust irony in his singeries, or monkey paintings, where hairy little parodies of man play at being painters and connoisseurs...
...changes at Harvard, in Cambridge, and around the Bay State. While Vietnam and China battled it out in Southeast Asia, Gov. Edward J. King and Massachusetts college students slugged it out at the State House. The issue? Hiking the state's drinking age enough to keep freshmen and sophomores sober. Proposals ranged from a flat 21-year drinking age to one plan allowing 18-year-olds to drink in bars, 20-year-olds to buy wine and beer at liquor stores, and 21-year-olds to pursue any liquid vice they wished...
...tall, high-shouldered and middleaged, and who seems sober, gets up from the typewriter and paces about the room. Time passes again, this time into the end zone. Is the writer faltering? No! He finds the thread, and hurriedly types: "Next morning he finds the strange feet still there. 'How's everything, P.B.?' a dozen people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell...
...considered basically a humorist received the commentary award since it was established as a separate Pulitzer in 1970. Previous recipients have included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Marquis Childs, the New York Times's William Safire, the Washington Post Writers Group's George Will and other sober, important, no-nonsense dispensers of Op Ed-page wisdom...
...will be just plain funny, calling up chuckles out of the absurd. The next time he will be an essayist, meditating on some social turn, usually for the worst. He can be wickedly satirical, his prose a dangerously lulling parody of the sort of nonsense that passes for sober commentary in too much of the press. And finally he can be a nostalgic, almost lyrical stylist. Examples of Baker in four moods and modes...