Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone is always laughing." Johnny was "on" the night he toured Manhattan bistros with an empty hand grenade (pulling the pin, he would cry: "Everybody goes when the whistle blows"). He was "on" when he panicked a staid hotel lobby by turning to a friend and barking in a loud, serious "tone: "We should have never operated in a hotel room. Granted he's alive, but you shouldn't have let that brain fall on the rug. Next time St. Vincent's." He is "on" whenever...
...error, these winy words had as much chance of escaping notice as a nudist at a fashion show. Worse yet, they appeared in T.S. 41, From an Intelligence Agent's Notebook, a shoot-'em-up spy story in the Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union, in a review last week. "Even if you do not find the book in it, do not get complacent. Go around...
Richard Strauss was born in Munich and lived there, or not far away, much of his life, but he feuded with the staid Münchners for rejecting his first (1893) opera, Guntram. The Munich Opera dropped it after only one disconsolate performance. Strauss's revenge: his very next opera, Feuersnot (1901), a go-minute twitting of Munich's conservative burghers. At the current Munich Festival, opera fans flocked to see their first Feuersnot in more than 20 years, heartily applauded the lampooning administered to them from across the footlights...
...them showed Kubitschek, his arms spread, apparently pleading with Dulles, who seemed to be looking into his wallet (see cut). It was enough to send Rio's nationalist press into tail spins. The normally staid Jornal do Brasil spread it seven columns across the front page, ran a caption implying that Kubitschek was pleading desperately with a sardonically grinning Dulles. Jeered Congressman Carlos Lacerda in his Tribuna da Imprensa: "Kubitschek, the President, rises respectfully to talk to Secretary Dulles in a language which cannot be understood. For it is the language of a subaltern speaking to a superior...