Word: soberness
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...great hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the sober portraits of Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looked down on 1,600 music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...
...play sometimes stutters, it is nevertheless humorous, touching and life-like at other times-thanks, in part, to some of the well-played minor characters, who are like blobs of fiery Latin color, relieving the sober grey of Fredric March's honest portrayal of Joppolo...
...terms of Phase II of Lend-Lease were received in London with cheers, tempered with the sober realization that the British bankroll is no longer fat enough to purchase in the open market all the raw materials she will need. By combing the lining of her moneybags Britain might be able to scrape together enough money to pay cash for the first few consignments of raw materials her factories must have...
...blast directed at U.S. postwar commercial plans in general, including civil aviation as well as the world press, the sober and influential London Economist specifically attacked A.P.'s Executive Director Kent Cooper. It singled out for criticism Pressman Cooper's recent statement in LIFE that, as a first step to world press freedom, preferential transmission rates should be abolished. The Economist observed: "Mr. Cooper, like most big-business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when...
...jampacked public galleries were sober and attentive. On the floor, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his new Defense Minister, General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, faced a tense House of Commons, summoned to hear the facts about the Army's reinforcements crisis (TIME, Nov. 27 et ante). The Prime Minister picked up a piece of paper. Loudly and clearly, head bobbing, he read an order-in-council.* The Government had decided to compel home-defense draftees ("zombies") to serve overseas...