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With this sober explanation, the staid British science journal Nature published a paper by a Cambridge University scientist who has reached a remarkable conclusion: the rate of growth of the male's beard seems to be related to his sexual activity...
...American Association of Museums is about as staid an organization as Spiro Agnew could wish, and for 64 years it has been meeting annually without notable incident. But this year's get-together was different...
UNTIL '68, the Faculty had always worked through a staid committee system. As problems arose, the solution invariably fell to an appointed committee, chaired by one of the prominent senior professors on the Faculty. The committee deliberated from nine months to two years. And the result invariably was an impeccably argued report on the problem, suggesting several means to its solution...
While perhaps not politically conservative, the conservative caucus does tend to be the more staid, traditional professors. The group includes most of the Faculty bachelors, for instance, and the caucus reflects their characteristics-self-sufficient, nervous, more secretive than the liberals, less willing to take risks...
...century, most music lovers would have agreed. Despite the revival of interest in Baroque music, the organ's role in modern musical life has been marginal. One reason is the declining importance of the church itself. Another is that organists by temperament seem to be among the most staid of musicians. In the past few years, though, a new excitement has been stirred by organ playing and composing, thanks largely to the talent of a brilliant German organist and unorthodox composer named Gerd Zacher...