Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driven from Augusta with Bob Cohn, the city editor of the Augusta paper for which I was working, to cover a Southern Christian Leadership Conference march protesting the county's stolid brand of segregation...
...reporting, Capote contrasts the stolid, generally sunny life of the murdered farm family with the eerie twilight world of the two killers. He limns the small-town Midwest of homemade pies, 4-H meetings and simple pieties. By dramatically re-creating the Clutter family-Father Herbert, who served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such...
...golf fans may never even have heard of him-but that's fine as far as Peter Thomson is concerned. A stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 170 lb.), stolid Aussie who 16 years ago gave up a promising career as a chemist to play pro golf, Thomson is frankly anti-American. "I've always been one to keep the Yanks at their distance," he says, and he diligently keeps his own-by refusing to compete on the big-money U.S. tour. But by one standard, at least, Thomson at 35 ranks as one of the game...
...handful of the migrants have been European. The most numerous (and sought after) "New Australians" still are "Pommies,"* meaning Britons. But it has been the arrival of 1,000,000 Continental Europeans in two decades that has most profoundly influenced the way of life Down Under. Once stolid menus now offer Bratwurst and steak Bordelaise, Australian football stars have names like Ditterich and Silvagni, and Danish modern furniture comes all the way from Melbourne or Sydney. This week Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman returned from a six-week tour of Europe, jubilant at having signed new immigration treaties with Malta...
...backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...