Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delbanco describes Channing and the intellectual life of nineteenth century America in academic prose that is alternately stiff and playful, making for some confusion but not obfuscating his larger interpretations. In seeking brevity, the author looks for neatly suggestive anecdotes and historical shorthands to portray his subject, and occasionally descends to awkward constructions, calling Trumball's M'Fingal a "bundle of hesitations," and stretching to describe Channing as fighting "an internal civil war that would last as long as he lived." There are also times when it seems the author reveres his subject almost unceasingly, remarking early in the biography...
...This week members of the team will be hosting visitors from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The visitors are in Cambridge in preparation for next weekend's meet in New Haven, Conn., which will match up a squad form Oxford-Cambridge against Harvard-Yale. The women expect some stiff competition from their British visitors...
...capes and large T-shaped wool ponchos. Many of Armani's favorite colors-shades of beige, brown, rust, taupe, gray, black, traces of cobalt blue-are subtly combined in a single ensemble. Favorite materials for pants and jackets are houndstooth checks, herringbone tweeds, velvet, flannel and, for evening, stiff satin. At night the baroque steps out: long silk crepe dresses, many strapless; spangled black tunics with full sleeves worn over black satin bermudas; tunics and jackets in velvet and satin over pants...
...Allowing unrestricted ownership but cracking down on the criminal use of guns. Opponents of gun control, including President Reagan and the N.R.A., advocate a stiff mandatory jail term for anyone who uses a gun in committing a crime...
...however, faces stiff competition in the new market. One rival videodisc system has been on the market since December 1978, and a third one is due out around Christmas. Each product is backed by one or more major electronics companies, and the systems are incompatible: the discs of one will not play on any system but its own. Moreover, all the videodiscs will be battling for scarce consumer dollars against an ever increasing array of home-entertainment products that ranges from giant-screen home projection devices and videotape recorders to television games and home computers...