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Though I am a staid and somewhat conservative professional man inured to beautiful women thrust on me by the media, your feature on Cheryl Tiegs moves me to comment: "Woof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Sure enough, the staid and stodgy crowd sang along--coat-and-tied respectables and young hipsters alike. The kind of involvement and interest Pippin demands from its audience is a credit to the play's success...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Worrying About Time | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...true saints." Saints work miracles and are very rare indeed. Evangelicals make swarms of converts, a good many of whom, as in all religions, do not remain strong in their conviction. Even so, the burgeoning new empire of Evangelicalism has already challenged the more staid religious establishment and set off hopeful echoes in the national spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...staid portraits on the walls of the Freshman Union vibrated to a boogie beat last Saturday night, along with approximately 1000 dancing, cheering partygoers who braved drizzling rain to attend what a Union porter termed "the best party here in 12 years...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Union Party | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...daily press covers the new economics voraciously and impetuously. Details of Catfish Hunter's contract with the Yankees made staid front pages. Sports sections ring with the dull strife of labor negotiations. A hundred newspapers run performance summaries of what they call baseball's Millionaires' Club. The paycheck appears to have become more important than the batting average. The fans read. The fans respond. Alms for the owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One treasurer's report | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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