Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome, lithe, Canadian-born bachelor of 37, Pastor Glenesk was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia, worked as a professional teacher, actor and social worker before his ordination. He was called to Spencer in 1955. It was then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk...
...always afraid that the Record American will dig up scandalous old pictures of two Harvard boys leaving the Charles Street Jail. The MDC caught these two fellows racing each other down the Charles River on two chunks of ice during the spring thaw. One of them was me, the staid discoverer of improper sex at Harvard...I'm no Victorian...
Burr B, with its staid academic blackboards, was an ideal arena for Goodman's irreverence. He swore freely, in Manhattan monotone, and looked up in blank surprise at the reactions he evoked. What words are taboo among confidential friends? He opened himself to the audience, it seemed, confiding his bisexuality, his extra-marital philandering: "I am very sexy," he told us. He reassured the skeptics with benevolent ridicule: "So she gets pregnant," he conceded with a friendly grin. "So what's so terrible...
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Fourteen leotard-clad 'Cliffies rolled around the living room floor of traditionally staid Cabot Hall last night, in the second of the informal, after-dinner Yoga classes offered this year...