Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure a solemn chorus, robbed in purple, comments on the action in song, but their accompaniment is a jarring, discordant arrangement of oboes, tympani, drums, and piano (written by Guzzetti himself). An angular, jagged set complements the music and helps undercut the stolid dignity of the purely tragic form...
...happiest combination of political freedom and national progress on the continent so far has occurred in Nigeria. There, three clearly defined and potentially antagonistic tribal regions have been melded into a smoothly working two-party federal government under stolid Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Since 1950, Nigeria's gross national product has grown steadily. It now has five universities where it had none in 1947, and its primary-school enrollment has more than tripled (from 820,000 to 2,600,000) in the same time. But Sir Abubakar has his problems. Nigeria's last official census...
...hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover, is one of the few male writers able to get convincingly inside a woman's character. Sybil seems so stolid and pragmatic on the surface but secretly lives an exciting life of the imagination with her rakish, long-dead first husband. Flighty Alex is another flawed rogue, who would like to be a bitch except that she hates hurting people. What makes Newby a rare author for his time...
...stolid, power-punching Liston threw in the proverbial towel before round seven began; Sonny suffered a probable shoulder fracture sometime during those six rounds...
...Young U.S. Living in the times of the French Enlightenment, Houdon became one of the first sculptors to live independent of noble patronage. He did the great intellects: Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, D'Alembert, Buffon. Commissions then brought him to the young U.S. to sculpt Washington in his stolid soldierliness, Franklin in his honest wisdom, Jefferson in his aristocratic brilliance...