Word: staid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into paroxisms of intellectual delight, simply listening to McCall talk should be a pleasure. His speaking style is light, slangy, and occasionally outrageous. When governor he hired an avant-garde poet as a speechwriting assistant, and he once read a tract from the libretto of "Hair" to a staid group of Masons. Who know's what he'll say to a group of college students...
...overcome them when he came to the school as dean in 1965. Ebert came with the hope of setting up an alternate system of care that would over-come the problems of impersonal, over-specialized, costly care. His political ability proved stronger than the inertia of the staid Medical School faculty, and in 1969 the doors of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) opened...
...Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care." Spock, who spent his Thoreauvian night in jail for counseling youths on how to avoid the draft, will also speak at Morse Auditorium, on Sunday Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. His topic, which sticks out like a sore thumb in these staid '70's, will be "The Need for Radical Political Action...
...Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A few years later The Australian threw even more clout--and a good deal of Murdoch's money--into unseating the first Labor premier in 20 years. In London, Murdoch owns not only the immensely profitable News of the World, but the more staid Sun, also a moneymaker. And the next time you're in the A&P, check the housewives gathered around The National Star...
...sexual arousal without scripts-the dramas and fantasies that people create in their minds to trigger sexual excitement. These scripts, he says, are shaped by early traumas that lead to unsolved sexual problems. Without a suitable script-in a situation such as a gynecological exam or a staid nudist camp&$151;there may be touching or nudity but no arousal. With a script, sexual conduct, almost always involving hostility, becomes a way of turning frustration and defeat into ritual triumph...