Word: soberness
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...sharp contrast to his last Harvard appearance, Norman Mailer '43, describing himself as "virtually stone sober", gave a lecture last night entitled "From Poetry to Espionage" to a Sanders Theater crowd of about...
...launched 28 months ago as a TIME-size fortnightly "feature newsmagazine" that would fill in gaps presumably left by the newsweeklies, the sober New Republic, the monthly Atlantic and all the other news and opinion journals. New Times has often seemed preoccupied with drugs, conspiracies and other counterculture concerns; more recently the magazine has moved part way off those trendy themes. New Times has reported on a mini-civil war between natives and newcomers in Telluride, Colo., on California hospitals that allegedly give kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals, and on a right-wing militia group in San Diego. Much...
...less populist platform in 1972 and was soundly trounced. Burned once, Democrats are wary of playing with this kind of political fire again. Among many liberals, Harris is the sentimental favorite. He speaks their language forcefully and eloquently. But after they cheer and chortle over his speeches, they have sober second thoughts. They want a winner in 1976, and Harris does not look like...
...father was the late Robert L. Berenson, a proper Bostonian and career diplomat. Her granduncle was the art historian Bernard Berenson. Her mother Gogo, now the Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giuliano, was the daughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer who introduced colors like shocking pink to the sober world of 1930s haute couture...
...train approaches New Haven its passengers become increasingly less sober and more boisterous. There is scattered singing and a few people are dancing. The vices are what one would expect for the Harvard-Yale game; alumni drink $12-a-bottle scotch at the front of the train, students smoke $35-an-ounce marijuana at the back. When the train arrives, cabs and buses wait to whisk denizens of the game to Yale's campus, and to the Yale Bowl where the game will be played. In Yale Bowl parking lots old friends gather to sip champagne and pick at delicacies...