Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby, Jim did the star turns at their home in Bray, a seaside village near Dublin. In a morality play staged in the nursery, little Jim wriggled across the floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...
Twice after playing with the New York Philharmonic, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin mortified the Philharmonic management by responding to applause with Bach encores, a rash defiance of the Philharmonic's staid traditions. After a third concert for another full house at Carnegie Hall last week, both audience and some orchestra players mischievously sought to applaud Menuhin into another encore. Duly warned to stick rigidly to the program, Menuhin smiled and announced: "I am not allowed . . ." Applause broke out again. Finally, Violinist Menuhin made a little speech: "I am not at all sure you are allowed to applaud either! [Snickers from...
...hula mood. Rock 'n' roll faltered slightly when ballads (Love Letters in the Sand, Tammy) began catching on again, and a few of the U.S.'s disk jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors say that rock...
...contrast with its staid morning sister, the 76-year-old Los Angeles Times (circ. 462,257), Norman Chandler's eight-year-old Los Angeles Mirror-News (308,594) is liberal Republican in outlook, breezy in style-and heavily in the red. Last week Chandler announced the "resignation" of the Mirror-News's independent-minded Editor-Publisher Virgil Pinkley, 50, onetime vice president and European manager of the United Press. Pinkley's successor: Hugh A. ("Bud") Lewis, longtime city editor of the Times. His probable first step: to attune the Mirror-News's editorial policy more closely...
From his high-laced shoes (specially built up for his World War I injuries) and long wool underwear bulging beneath his socks to the paper holders into which he jams his long Sumatra or Brazil cigar, Ludwig Erhard has remained true to his staid Franconian upbringing. Though he now wears glossily tailored blue suits, their lapels are usually sprinkled with ashes. His youngest daughter is married to a Daimler-Benz executive. The son-in-law used to work for the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, but Erhard nagged .so persistently that a young...