Word: soberness
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...success by a commercial artist named Huldah; 2) The Dancer, in a ballet skirt and a misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse race at Longchamp or a Riviera regatta, which Raoul Dufy invented and his younger brother Jean imitates in quantity...
...Kinsey was fascinated by the collection. Said he: "I want to study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
State Department analysts drew a sober conclusion from his remarks: one part party line (but not entirely, since the party here never credits the U.S. with peaceful intentions), one part alcohol...
...trouble, management also gave him increased prestige and power to match up against his old antagonist, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. Said one top steel executive: "The steel industry knows that it is going to have to deal with the union problem on a permanent basis. It therefore wants a sober, responsible, conservative man running the union, and not some Socialist element...
Fame carried her to Hollywood in 1919, and here the sober script calls a thoroughly slap-happy recess to watch a flag-waving Helen, as the star of the film Deliverance (supposedly based on her life story), lead the charge of a revolutionary rabble across something that looks suspiciously like Concord Bridge...