Word: staid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Loeb, the frantically right-wing publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, said he was keeping an open mind about Rockefeller, whom he had called "the wife-swapper" in 1964 after Rockefeller's marriage. "He's now a staid old married man," Loeb said last week...
VIRGINIA: It was a classic confrontation between a rambunctious neopopulist, Lieutenant Governor Henry E. Howell, 53, and a staid member of the state's conservative elite, former Governor Mills E. Godwin, 58. Affluent suburbanites paid $1.65 per drink at genteel Godwin cocktail parties, while blacks, rednecks and young people paid nickels and dimes for beer and soda pop at Howell gatherings. To complicate matters, both men originally were Democrats, but Howell ran as an Independent and Godwin as a Republican; the disenchanted and disarrayed Democrats fielded...
Whatever the dining spot, Gault and Millau, unlike some other food critics, never accept free meals. Often the pair sup at inexpensive, as yet unestablished restaurants. Le Guide Michelin, the staid bible of French cuisine, generally evaluates only the notable and reserves judgment for three years...
...machine-type politics in a city which had been dominated by the Democratic machine for nearly 100 years. Although from most indications, Watergate had little impact on the race, Beame is the type of candidate who is likely to be popular in a post-Watergate electorate. He is staid, cautious, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty, and is too old to be ambitious. Beame is the classic civil servant, the man who once taught accounting in one of New York's high schools. He is an official of overarching caution, awed by risk, frightened by intuition...
...author of the new bestseller Marilyn seemed a startling choice as this year's recipient of the staid MacDowell Colony's 14th annual award for "outstanding service to the arts." But there in Peterborough, N.H., clearly enjoying the admiration and an alfresco lunch, was Norman Mailer. Thinned down from prepublication fasting, Mailer looked a bit like a quizzical coyote as he listened to a speech about his favorite writer by John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review. Warming to his subject, Leonard variously described Mailer as a "libidinal compost heap," "a cyclotron run amuck...