Word: sobersidedness
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This is the third crisis to test the mettle of the new government. Since Brown became Prime Minister at the end of June, he and his ministers have handled terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and serious flooding in several parts of the country. His sobersided approach has struck a...
The grand theme of Landscape and Memory (Alfred A. Knopf; 652 pages; $40) is the many ways men and women have found myth, meaning and symbols of national character in such natural objects as forests, rivers and mountains. Consider, for example, the Alps. To sobersided moderns, these vast, snowy protuberances...
Ever since it was first outlined, President Clinton's health plan has been wonk heaven: a field day for number crunchers, policy analysts and all the sobersided types who use hand-held computers even though they know the figures anyway. Matthew Arnold wrote of ignorant armies clashing by night; the...
The Heiskell-Donovan team chose as their business successors men whose training was essentially in moneymaking, not communication. As the appetite for solid, sobersided journalism was increasingly eroded by television, the cultural acid rain of our time, and by growing public preference for amusement over information, it seems inevitable that...
The Pulitzer jury has never given a prize for writing about the weather, but if it ever does, the New York Times is ready. Last Thursday, the sobersided daily began its national forecast thusly: