Word: stolidness
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...Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only the classless, abundant workers' paradise. On the contrary, the stolid bureaucracy expands, reduplicating itself and its controls. The Revolution's promises seem doomed always to recede into the future...
...Charles Schwartz, a professor of music at Manhattan's Hunter College. Though Schwartz gives the facts of Porter's life, he has forgotten too much of the fun. His book truly comes to life only when he quotes his subject's lyrics. The difference between stolid narration and bright rhymes is the difference, in Cole Porter's words, between the good turtle soup and merely the mock-or for that matter, night...
...both enemies and allies. He favors a step-by-step approach to peace in the Middle East. If elected Premier, he is expected to go along with President Carter's proposal to reconvene the Geneva talks this year. He would certainly be more ingenious and inventive than the stolid Rabin. Like Rabin, however, he will be intransigent on questions dealing with the Palestine Liberation Organization. To a suggestion that the P.L.O. be granted recognition by Israel, Peres replied: "Stroking a tiger will not make it a pussycat...
...Department lawyers and FBI agents to probe bureau excesses, starting in New York. The inquiring agents were quickly labeled "the dirty dozen" by their colleagues. They discovered a detailed list of extraordinary activities by agents, many of which were illegal, in a safe maintained by John F. Malone, a stolid G-man nicknamed "Cement Head," who headed the New York FBI office until 1975. More than 20 agents were granted immunity in return for testimony about their superiors...
Over the years, the lethal 12th has been the site of countless tragedies. In the 1937 Masters, Ralph Guldahl, a stolid Norwegian, had a four stroke lead coming up to the 12th. His tee shot rolled into Rae's Creek for a double bogey and Byron Nelson went on to win by shooting a birdie on the same hole and an eagle on the 13th. In 1959, Arnold Palmer also met a watery grave as Art Wall birdied six of the final seven holes to catch him from behind...