Word: staidness
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...generation that seems to be saying, "Pay attention to us," we might well reply that indeed we do. In the past three years, TIME has run more than 150 stories on one aspect or another of youth, including covers on U.S. teenagers, on London's youthful takeover of staid English culture, on young Americans' feelings about the draft. The Essay section also examined the problem of "Not Losing One's Cool About the Young...
Separate Identity. To make matters worse, the competition is stiffening. If the Monopolies Commission approves the deal, the Times will merge with Lord Thomson's prosperous Sunday Times. Thomson can be counted on to galvanize the staid daily. It is possible, too, that Thomson may decide to consolidate his operations and print both London papers on the Sunday Times's modernized presses.* In that case, the Guardian, which prints on the Sunday Time's presses, and the Sunday Observer, which uses the daily Times's plant, might be put in the position of having...
These transformations of the once-staid and uniform Gen Ed A program are the brainchild of Robert J. Kiely, assistant professor of English and director of the course. Last year Kiely himself taught an honors Gen Ed section as a dry-run for courses in writing for special fields. He pronounced the experiment "very very successful" and last spring the Committee on General Education approved the five new courses...
...Irish truck driver's son who bubbled up through the Labor Party's ranks to the No. 2 spot like the suds on a pint of warm stout, Brown has been defying the staid frock-coat-and-homburg image of a diplomat ever since he arrived at Whitehall four months ago for his first day of work. While senior foreign officers ceremoniously gathered out front to greet the new man, Brown slipped in the back door and went to work. In what the Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about...
...boys and half as many girls, most handpicked from the Freshman Register. Apparently the photographer thought the group looked too bland, because he scouted the decor of other rooms in the entry until he found a wall-size collage of nudes. It served as a back-drop, covering the staid maps which usually adorn Kelman's walls...