Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats...
...your Aug. 27 story on the American painter, John Vanderlyn: I certainly should appreciate very much seeing his picture of Ariadne, which "shocked his staid American contemporaries...
...match the fame he enjoyed in Paris. He returned in 1815, confidently bearing with him the pictures Paris had admired. Among them was the slickest nude yet painted by an American, a solid, polished essay in sensuality, made respectable, he hoped, by its title: Ariadne. But Ariadne shocked his staid American contemporaries, who denounced the picture as an example of European depravity...
Ontario Conservative W. Earl Rowe, acting leader of his party, scoffed at Harris' reasoning. Said Rowe: "I do not believe it will help any Canadian magazine." Later, in the usually staid Senate, Ontario's Norman Lambert and Manitoba's Thomas Crerar accused their own Liberal party of abandoning its free-trade traditions. But the objections were overrun by the impatient Liberal drive for a vote. In three hours, Harris' carefully timed bill cleared the House; the Senate rubber-stamped it in a single sitting...
...shuffle of Chrysler's top command capped a long list of changes aimed at strengthening the company. Chrysler had already scrapped the traditionally staid Chrysler lines for the "Forward Look," broken its highly centralized corporate structure into more flexible autonomous divisions, built eight new plants, including Detroit's most highly automated engine factory, allocated more than $1 billion for capital improvements during the next five years...