Word: staids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, Jones' selection represents a fine complement to the choice of of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright for the traditionally staid Commencement address, which will take place the day following Jones' Class Day oration...
However, the Pied Piper Fantasy, like the rest of the program, was still a startling break with the Symphony's staid tradition. The concert in general drew much disapproval from the audience. "This is what happens when John Williams conducts the Symphony," grumbled one woman afterwards, undoubtedly voicing the thoughts of many other patrons. Perhaps it is the purist in all of us that goes to Symphony Hall with a strict set of ideas, and perhaps it is because of these ideas that this kind of performance fails to realize our ideal of an authentic concert experience...
...Cynicism is not a bad morality for today's man. It has a slapstick quality to it that goes well with the silly po-mo late culture we seem to be stuck in. To be heard these days one needs to act broadly, and we cannot get by on staid neo-Victorianism alone, no matter what The Weekly Standard might tell you. We should revive Diogenes as a folk hero, especially at persnickety Harvard where everyone is so exquisitely sensitive. We can just imagine him thumbing his nose at everybody and his mother, chatting up house masters, and spreading...
...singer-songwriter David Bowie proved himself one of rock's more adaptable creatures. Now 50, the creator of such best-selling albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars has become the first entertainer of any stripe to "securitize" himself. Last month staid insurance companies turned into rock-bond groupies, excitedly buying up $55 million of so-called Bowie Bonds privately placed by Fahnestock & Co., a New York City investment firm...
Faculty and administrators were visibly elated by the gift. The usually staid Lewis--who is also McKay professor of computer science and taught Gates during his stint at Harvard--went so far as to shout "Yippee!" and share sparkling cider with students in his class, Computer Science 121, "Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation...