Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hofmann was born in Weissenburg, Bavaria, and his well-meaning father, a stolid civil servant, had hopes that the boy would one day be a famous scientist. Young Hofmann had the aptitude: he pored over engineering books, when scarcely out of school invented an electromagnetic comptometer. But at 18 he abandoned his tinkering to devote himself fulltime to art. He went to Paris, had a brief flirtation with the Fauves-the radical "wild beasts" who were moving away from objective naturalism-and with the cubists. The affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with...
...just been on a long vacation. In 1925 pudgy New Orleans Saxophonist Sidney Bechet gave Moscow its first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died. The downbeater: Stalin, who ordered dzhaz outlawed...
...Support. In Léopoldville, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu and his new Premier Joseph Ileo picked up new support. Last week the U.N.'s Conciliation Commission, composed of eleven Afro-Asian countries that sent troops to the Congo, advised that Ileo might be able to bring peace with a broad-based government, and they recommended convening a "summit" meeting to bring the Congo's assorted factional leaders to agreement...
Fifty years ago her grandfather had been the last British monarch to visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth...
...Manhattan to urge the regime to reconvene Parliament and give imprisoned Patrice Lumumba a fair trial. As they talked, rowdy groups of pro-Lumumba and pro-Kasavubu men shouted at and slugged one another outside U.N. headquarters. It was hardly a favorable atmosphere for promises of peace, but the stolid President grandly announced he would give it another try-with a round-table conference of all Congolese leaders on Jan. 25. Lumumba's own variety of roundup seemed to be proving more effective...