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...cigarettes and cigars you can see Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...
...success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,432,700). Last week 40-year-old Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp ("If you don't like the Mirror, you don't like the human race") told the erratic success story of the paper in a book, Publish and Be Damned!, as irreverent and racy...
Today it is almost impossible to see why these pictures should have enraged anyone. The Monet at the Currier Gallery is a placid, solid landscape, riffled by a hurrying breeze. True its chief tone is not the staid brown beloved by the academicians at the time, but it is a hardly less respectable grey. Wet grey holds white sunlight and brown, peach and lavender earth together. It is the kind of picture that inspires conservative amateurs, such as Winston Churchill, to their happy daubings...
...Sound Are the Figures? Less than six years ago, Kinsey & Co. had brought out Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, first of a projected nine-or ten-volume series of sex studies. It was cluttered with statistical furniture and dull, technical writing; Saunders, a staid old medical publishing house, thought it would be doing well to sell 5,000 copies. By now, the first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio...