Word: stolidness
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...still find it difficult to describe precisely what was wrong at Harvard. It was not merely the lack of experts in certain fields, nor the feeling of stolid complacency, nor even the absence of interest in teaching and discussion. The real problem seems to me how to have been that many members of the Harvard Faculty simply were not intellectuals; they lacked tradition and avoided risk. Intellectual creativity is not an individual matter. It seems to involve, above all, the mastery of classical intellectual traditions, the examination of the changing world from that perspective, and the courage to take...
...weekly grocery shopping. The couple's three children, ages 22, 20 and 17, attended expensive prep schools (Choate, Spence) and private colleges (Brown, Middlebury). Ferraro, who flies home from her small Washington apartment every chance she gets, is very close to her husband of 24 years. Tall, stolid and implacably calm, Zaccaro is a steadying influence on his peripatetic wife. He overcame initial objections to her career ("I was real domineering then, but I've changed a lot"), and now radiates pride, escorting her silently but genially to the myriad banquets and functions that crowd her calendar...
...they smell blood, blood." The lawyer's voice lowered ominously: "There is no stopping them now. It is like sharks in a feeding frenzy." Pacing before the jury of six men and six women, wiry, emotive Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman was a consummate showman. Stolid in contrast, Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Walsh meticulously outlined the Government's case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair. In the front row, his wife Cristina...
...every scene. Playwright Athol Fugard, 51, has won international acclaim by resisting the impulse to moralize. Such dramas as "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys, Boesman and Lena and A Lesson from Aloes do not preach against the evils of apartheid; they give institutionalized racism a human face, sometimes stolid, sometimes collapsing in laughter, tears or rage...
...strongest speeches of the campaign on his best issue, compassion and fairness to the poor. He attacked Hart with a toughness many thought Mondale lacked. As Illinois approached, Mondale began to lose some steam, but he remained well insulated by his able handlers. All of a sudden his stolid candidacy, which had contrasted so poorly with Hart's campaign of new ideas, began to look safer to voters unsettled by Hart's change of name (from Hartpence) and age (younger by a year). Said Housewife Marge Lannon, 37, who voted for Mondale in Illinois: "I was taken...