Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latest radio pirate is Radio Nord, an American-owned, 20-kilowatt pirate radio station operating from a converted German freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord...
...great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices, pushing fingers of land out into waterways and interlacing them with canals so that everyone can moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks that staid real estate men frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says...
...picked up a Medal of Freedom in Washington from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
...long series of rehabilitations. As styles change, men and periods slip into comparative obscurity, and a later age whisks them back into favor. So it has been to a large degree with the art of France in the 17th century-a century that for a long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been fighting for the few surviving works of the 17th century master Georges de La Tour. Last summer, the Louvre put on the biggest exhibit of Nicolas Poussin ever held...
Peter and the Wolf (Beatrice Lillie; London Symphony Orchestra; London). The ineffable Bea seems to take Prokofiev's fable with what Max Beerbohm called "a stalactite of salt." Her impish spoofery is just what this staid and somewhat self-conscious classic now needs...