Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic of 50 years of Communism...
...Russian's outlook has perhaps been altered more by industrialization and urbanization than by any methodical attempt to reshape his consciousness. Nonetheless, he is basically what he has been for centuries. He retains much of his shirokaya dusha, or boundless generosity, his emotionalism, his stolid endurance, his hatred and distrust of authority and, at the same time, his deep need for it. Despite widespread atheism and official disapproval, religion is proving increasingly difficult to root out. The Baptists, who appeal to the Russian soul with their fundamentalism, are growing steadily, now have more than 3,000,000 members. Even...
...Even stolid Aleksei Kosygin must have been struck by the change from Glassboro, N.J., where his opposite number was earnestly conciliatory and the townsfolk were downright friendly...
...governor alone does not decide questions of clemency or commutation. Stays of execution, commutations, and pardons can be given only with the consent of the eight-member Council. Unfortunately this year the governor is an ambitious, calculating Republican vice Presidential candidate and the majority of the Council are stern, stolid, calculating Democrats. The governor and councillors are will aware that the Commonwealth's system of shared responsibility is little known or understood and that in the eyes of the nation any executions would be the fault of vice-presidential candidate Volpe. The prospect of the Democratic councillor's letting...
Kathryn Walker is excellent as Raymonde, the wife whose romantic pranks and stolid middle-class sympathies recall Tom Sawyer and his day-dream exploits. Although not as fluid as Kaplan, she has caught the silliness necessary to her part, and her voice is the high piping it should...