Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward Compromise. Each minister was mindful of the men whose needs-and whose votes-he had to consider: Europe's stubborn, stolid farmers. Germany's farmers are high-cost operators. They still mostly use horse-drawn power and till tiny, tired plots that have been handed down and subdivided over the generations. Bonn's farm-strong Christian Democratic Party insists on protecting them with some of the world's steepest subsidies and tariffs. France, which has half of the Common Market's arable land and its largest and most efficient farms, wants to eliminate...
...Fester J. Pupous '65 lay down his copy of All For Love and strode out into the Cantabridgian eve. The IAB, stolid and white-pated, squinted at him as he passed...
...tenuous links to the here and now. Her apartment has become an antique shop in which everything is for sale. "Be careful with these dishes-they are sold," she warns her dinner guests. Every evening she compulsively gambles away all she owns at the local casino. She spurns a stolid admirer who is in the demolition business, destroying the old to make way for the new in the "martyred city" of Boulogne. Most troubled of the four is the widow's stepson, who cannot forget (nor can any conscientious Frenchman, Resnais seems to suggest) the part he took...
Leslie Caron, occasionally in lingerie, spends a weekend accidently locked up with a stolid picture framer in the last part, "Two Pigeons." The situation puts heavy stress on the imagination, but creates some decent comedy. By narrating their sides of the story alternately, the two prisoners expertly squeeze out all the possibilities their predicament suggests, short of the obvious...
...usual, South Africa's white regime took its latest humiliation in stolid stride. Following an agreement quietly signed last May with Portugal, its like-minded ally, South Africa is putting up $5,300,000 to help construct a jet airport on the Cape Verde island of Sal as an additional refueling stop. South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat...