Word: soberness
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...revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends, drunk and sober, I must have failed in those days by being in the presence of their anguish and yet deaf and blind...
...leading candidate to succeed her husband. From her seat on the Politburo, she has wielded considerable power and was probably a major sponsor of the anti-Confucius campaign. But the military distrusts her, and the moderates hate her vengefulness and capriciousness. In China's current sober climate, Chiang Ching has become the butt of salacious jokes and comparisons with the notorious 7th century Empress Dowager Wu. At the recent congress she not only was denied the Ministry of Culture, which she coveted, but according to all reports did not address the delegates. When Mao dies, his wife...
...whatever it is, is to enable people to acquire moral values. However, he rarely indicates what values he has in mind. But once exams start, all the nonsense is forgotten. Frivolous questions like "Do you need anything from the Square?" evoke not trivial requests for cookies or soap but sober, serious replies, like "Yes, the Monarch Notes for The Red and the Black." And as students settle down to serious work, Harvard, too, turns to serious business-administering the grades so essential to rational decision-making by law schools and banks...
...Philadelphia magazine published a "Survival Guide to the Next Depression." U.S. News & World Report, which is hardly trendy or sensational, recently examined the likelihood of another 1929-style crash. The cover line, "What a Depression Is Really Like-Scenes from the 1930s," was a bit alarming for the sober story inside. In fact, economists generally agree that a return to the horrors of the '30s-when unemployment hit 25% as measured then (it is now 7.1%) and industrial production dropped by 53% (it is now down 4.3%)-is not remotely possible...
What whales and their dolphin kin will not declare, this extraordinary book celebrates. It is a collection, really an orchestration, of appreciative views of the great creatures. Sober scientific articles and elegiac poems, naturalists' reports and scholars' musings, pencil drawings and underwater photographs jumble together, but all gently point to the possibility that whales are geniuses. The conclusion, of course, is unproved, yet most readers are likely to be convinced of its plausibility. Those with a mystical bent may even end up agreeing with Melville that if God ever returns to this planet, he would come...