Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
...years, a commission appointed by the Postmaster General looks into British radio & TV and makes recommendations on future policy. Last week, while the report of the current commission was still in the hands of the printers, some of the news leaked out and caused flustered fluttering in the staid, non-commercial offices...
General Manager Rudolf Bing, who has already livened up the staid old Metropolitan Opera with an infusion of vitamins, last week gave the Met a shot of champagne-and one of the greatest triumphs of its 67 years. For his third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway...
...Newark News was not the only paper that was disturbed by Rex Morgan, M.D., although it was the only one that threw it out. From Canada the Hamilton, Ont. Spectator dashed off a query to the syndicate; so did the staid Providence, R.I. Bulletin...
...tedious route in a pretty lumbering conveyance. The Scotland Yard man furthermore insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...