Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty or thirty years before that indicates there may be a fallacy in this whole line of reasoning. If the collegiate attitude were the easy, the natural, the carefree one, the alumnus should be able to recover it with the aid of some old cronies and a good stiff drink. He usually finds his cronies, and almost always takes a drink or two, but the spark isn't there...
...radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan of Zarissa, which was produced in occupied Paris. After the war, Egk went through the denazification wringer and was finally cleared...
...still good: 1) when loose accusations start flying around, innocent people may be hurt; 2) liberals should not let their passion for freedom blind them to Communism. Unfortunately, Shaw makes these points more as a pamphleteer than a novelist. His book moves smoothly, but his characters are papery and stiff. For all his craft and good will, Novelist Shaw never quite creates the illusion that he is writing about people who breathe air, or even listen to what...
...high cost of living has caught up with sex up in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouths who entertain women in their rooms after hours will now have to undergo a stiff $10 fine compared to the previous tariff of half that amount...
...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...