Word: staid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Supersalesmen John Veronis and Nicolas Charney announced plans last month to recast and expand the staid Saturday Review (TIME, Nov. 22), they sought someone to serve as "a strong right arm" to Editor Norman Cousins. After Cousins abruptly resigned in disagreement with the magazine's new owners (TIME. Nov. 29), Charney took the title of editor and stepped up the search for what he called a "consummate professional" to help him revitalize and run the Review. The search ended last week with the selection of TIME Senior Editor Ronald P. Kriss...
...brick in Manhattan's East Village, was built by Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor to house New York's first public library. It has been designated a federal landmark and, except when the janitor's dog naps on the front steps, its outward aspect is as staid as old money. Inside, however, the atmosphere combines elements of a happening, a commune and a scene from The Time of Your Life. Bicycles wheel through the stately old lobby. Plays are being rehearsed. Youths in jeans scurry around with portfolios. Music echoes from a distant room...
...then there were the performers themselves. If you pause to think for a moment during the movie, you realize that these are grown, supposedly staid Britishers masquerading as animals in bulky hooves and fur. At first rational thought it seems ludicrous; at least you wonder why they are doing this. But it is apparent that the dancers are having fun: they love the dance, and even as much as that they love the characters they are portraying...
...Advocate are Harvard students; almost all the contributors are local talent. It is an abrupt departure from the more common Advocate practice of importing names to the table of contents from out of state--or from masthead. The artistic format has been changing too; no longer depending on a staid layout, the editors are exploring the potentials of graphics. If the Advocate's innovations can stimulate better contributors as well as more contributions, it may find itself rivalling, for the first time, its old reputation...
Long plagued by an image of gray stolidity, the French Communist Party has lately been going all out to acquire a more human look. The party newspaper, L'Humanité, has taken to dressing up its dreary polemics with color pictures for weekend editions. The staid old Paris Communist headquarters, with its fortress-like steel doors, has been abandoned for a new glass-fronted building, designed by Brazilian Communist-sympathizer Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia. But nowhere has the new look been more evident than in the party's annual Festival of Humanity...