Word: soberness
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...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
This performance made valid criticism of Mansfield slightly more difficult to communicate and cleared the high road for him. So did the stand-in, which only had the effect, according to several Government 1061 students, of annoying them and giving Mansfield exactly what he wanted: the chance to appear sober and in the position of responding to an overindulged anger--anger out of proportion to the alleged wrong...
...would I use it again? In a minute. As long as you know how to sober the thing up (turning it off and on often did the trick), the 750NAV is a real boon to tourism, giving directions, noting points of interest (restaurants, parks, hotels) and generally making life easier...
...Douglas W. Sears '69, president of Inter-Club Council, the body responsible for overseeing Harvard's final clubs, says he thinks all clubs operate according to a 1984 agreement compelling clubs to obey all Massachusetts state laws regarding alcohol use and requiring that safe, sober transportation must always be provided for students at off-campus events where alcohol is served...
...These parties are not ones where everyone is drunk and crazy. Many people stay sober," he adds...