Word: soberness
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...this friend Kubacki, who, until he went on the shelf last week, has really been swinging this fall. Now as you know, he was also invited for Saturday, but I don't know how well he'll be recovered from his hangover. His continued absence might sober me up a little...
...rarely get into digressions on the phone, and digressions are often the most useful"), and he does not join those colleagues who would cover up a public figure's private pecadilloes. (Ford Aide Robert Hartmann, he writes, was "nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor Clay Felker: "Dick says things that may not go down well...
...issue is religious, and in the last analysis also a sober financial one. By saying that the Church in Harvard Yard is supported by Harvard, Ben-Zion Gold was speaking quite literally. What I am sure most people of good will do not realize is that Protestant religion, representing less than half of the present Harvard population, is the only one supported financially by the University: A large staff, a paid Protestant preacher, heat, lights, janitorial service, the regular use of the building, every week. And as to the church building Jews and Catholics contributed money generously to build this...
...spell all this out in his sermon. Today, in 1975, thousands of dollars to Harvard's budget go to the support of Protestant religion, and nothing to any other religion. This, then, is not an issue out of the past. It is a serious matter of religion and a sober matter of deep unfairness. H. Epstein Space Committee Harvard Hillel
Festivities had been in full swing for three days prior to The Game and by the time I arrived to board the bus to Mecca (Schaefer Stadium) I felt a little like a fish out of water. I, unlike the 60,000 other pilgrims, was sober...