Word: soberness
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...long time ago, Robert Frost said he disliked college because the professors not only knew the answers but knew the questions. The old man understood media truth when media were still referred to as the press. Questions, not answers, preside. If you can get enough sober people asking enough loaded questions, you have carried the day or at least confused it beyond redemption. As I traveled, sports fans seemed to have lost every sense of focus...
...staffs of CBS, NBC and ABC have a caste solidarity. Their views generally prevail because the giant networks are concerned with prestige-and during most of the broadcast day, with game shows and trashy sitcoms, the networks do so little else to earn it. But at long last the sober world of network news is in for major change...
...couple of newlyweds having an easy, relaxed time with their friends. That was essentially the case. A year ago, when he last played Los Angeles, he was drinking and down enough to be thoroughly believable as he sang his own Help Me Make It Through the Night. Now, sober as a choirboy (he has been on the wagon since last September), he held Rita's hand, whispered to her and blended his deep, friendly baritone with her voice of amber and honey. The capacity crowd of 3,700 roared back cheers and bravos...
...world isn't used to your open diplomacy. It stiffens the back of Israel and raises the expectations of the Arabs, which, once frustrated, will retard rather than bring peace." During a week of buffeting over U.S.-Soviet relations. Jimmy Carter hardly needed that sober assessment of his Middle East policy. But it came last Wednesday from Rabbi Alexander Schindler, one of the 53 Jewish leaders invited to a dialogue with the President at the White House...
...contribution. The fashion industry bestowed the miniskirt, musicians drummed up acid rock, drugs brought their own cults etc. etc. In retrospect, these symbols elicit smiles--even laughs--of recognition from those who participated in, and watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles the cumulative impact of these Sixties trademarks. They exist now only in our memories, yet, at that time, all had a particular social purpose; none...