Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
Spoofing Mac was also the rage on television. The once staid BBC, which has reacted to competition from commercial TV with racy vigor, brought nationwide complaints with a satirical TV revue called That Was the Week That Was. One of the most outrageous TWTWTW skits featured a doctored newsreel of Macmillan, making it appear as if he were saying exactly the opposite of everything he really said. Another had Macmillan telephoning the White House. Says he: "Hello, Jack, this is Harold . . . Harold Macmillan . . . Macmillan...
...three biggest grocers,* Weston has 400 supermarkets in Europe alone. Among his holdings: the U.S.'s National Tea Co., Canada's Loblaw Groceterias, Australia's Tip Top Bakeries, Britain's huge (more than 200 subsidiaries) Associated British Foods Ltd. and London's staid old Fortnum & Mason store in Piccadilly, where upper-class Britons have bought their Yorkshire pies and potted shrimp since...
Edward Estlin Cummings' father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston's Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: "The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof garden: it's inside...
Many motels now take children under 14 free, but the William Hilton Inn in Hilton Head, S.C., has a nurse and helpers who mind children and even feed them in the dining room while parents are busy elsewhere. Staid Boston is building the Fenway Commonwealth, a six-story, Continental-flavor motel with reproductions of Italian provincial furniture and atmosphere built into the walls. At the Ocean-House Motel in San Diego, waiters are dressed in 17th century costumes as British naval officers, and macaws shrill from cages as guests swim in one of the largest pools in Southern California. Other...