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Word: stolid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whimsical, quirky, sensuous Aunt Augusta is Henry's last chance at life. Henry simply hasn't lived. And it is his travels with her, to Istanbul in the flesh and into her past in reminiscence, that initiate him. Surviving one shocker after another, his stolid primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was a virgin, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum nipples in the spotlights. It is as if Aunt Augusta were Henry's wicked fairy...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Travels With My Aunt | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...depending on how many other union chiefs are present to vote down Jerry Wurf. While that may be an exaggeration, the 54-year-old Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is certainly a maverick in the stolid hierarchy of organized labor. He has bucked the AFL-CIO high command on such issues as the 1972 election (Wurf was strong for George McGovern, while the federation observed a pro-Nixon neutrality) and the Viet Nam War (he repeatedly opposed council resolutions in support of the war). Even so, Wurf is a growing power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Public Workers' Powerhouse | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...because of the inexhaustible promotional gimmicks, the bat and ball and senior citizens days; the all-weather artificial turf; the dazzling uniforms? Is it the metaphysics and momentum that still continue from the zenith of the '30s and '40s? Or is it that this supposedly stolid, permanent game has imperceptibly accommodated change-that in each era it has accepted physical, textual and social alterations that a decade before had seemed impossibly revolutionary? Is it that, in the end, no other sport is so accurate a reflection of the supposedly stolid, permanent-and ultimately changeable-country that surrounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Greatest Game | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

Such diligence paid off. Alsop's description of the economic base of a provincial commune or production methods at a small rural factory provide some of the freshest Western reporting yet from China. He even found evidence of humor in the seemingly stolid Communist leadership. At the start of a three-hour interview, Chou En-lai asked him, "Would you like to know what I really think, or would you like another of those boring public interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New China Hand | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...editors of The Crimson had stood by for three years while not one but two dailies had been founded. The Harvard Echo in December of 1879 and The Harvard Daily Herald in January of 1892. While the adventurous and talented Herald moved in for the kill on the more stolid and less interesting Echo, The Crimson's editors were consigned to a back seat, serving as observers to a battle they wanted to join. The Crimson's writers had to be content to deliver their opinion of the situation in their editorials. Thus, The Echo was told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Spite of a Leery Faculty, The Crimson Begins | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

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