Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year...
...correct the mistakes of the past." At week's end Rhee made his first trip out of the palace since the riots, to pay a tearful hospital call on some of the wounded students. The crowds that had always applauded him in the past now stared in stolid silence...
...tissue paper. Like baseball buffs, golf fans dote on the long-ball hitter; they pack six deep behind the tee to gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yd. drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust at a botched shot. On the greens, bent into his knock-kneed stance, he tries to sink long putts when many pros would prudently...
...nations still eye each other across a gulf nearly as impassable. In Alan Sillitoe, the largely silent second nation has found a brilliantly articulate spokesman. His people, rattling around in the urban slums of the English Midlands, have nothing in common with the world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short stories, as in his novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sillitoe's characters are spry, gamy, wry-humored, and view the British policeman not as a kindly bobby...
...cluster of grim blacks holding up antigovernment placards, and up to Parliament to address a joint session. His speech had been drafted long ago in London to be the major effort of his trip. In the parliamentary dining room sat his expectant hearers, most of them bulky, stolid-looking Afrikaners...