Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich's Wolfgang Ketterer Gallerie, two spacious floors have been jammed for the past six weeks with crowds of visitors who nearly block the view of Janssen's 234 watercolors, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and drawings. Gallery habitues come to admire the skill of Janssen's work, staid burghers come to tut at his subjects, teen-agers to titter over them, students to analyze their social significance, and connoisseurs...
Memorial Hall will stand deserted as the scene of mental gymnastics shifts from its staid auditorium to sportier confines...
...generation that seems to be saying, "Pay attention to us," we might well reply that indeed we do. In the past three years, TIME has run more than 150 stories on one aspect or another of youth, including covers on U.S. teenagers, on London's youthful takeover of staid English culture, on young Americans' feelings about the draft. The Essay section also examined the problem of "Not Losing One's Cool About the Young...
Separate Identity. To make matters worse, the competition is stiffening. If the Monopolies Commission approves the deal, the Times will merge with Lord Thomson's prosperous Sunday Times. Thomson can be counted on to galvanize the staid daily. It is possible, too, that Thomson may decide to consolidate his operations and print both London papers on the Sunday Times's modernized presses.* In that case, the Guardian, which prints on the Sunday Time's presses, and the Sunday Observer, which uses the daily Times's plant, might be put in the position of having...
These transformations of the once-staid and uniform Gen Ed A program are the brainchild of Robert J. Kiely, assistant professor of English and director of the course. Last year Kiely himself taught an honors Gen Ed section as a dry-run for courses in writing for special fields. He pronounced the experiment "very very successful" and last spring the Committee on General Education approved the five new courses...