Word: stolidness
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...final breakthrough came later in the year when he carved The Kiss. Nothing could be less like Rodin's voluptuous lovers than these stolid, blocklike figures. Where Rodin's lovers flicker and twist, Brancusi's lovers face each other straight on and are barely scratched on the surface of the stone. The tender surface of Rodin's burnished bronze palpitates with life; Brancusi's pitted limestone is all idea...
CZECH films have been in vogue for several years now, for a variety of stylish reasons. (Political capital is surely a featured consideration; American critics have a habit of translating the Czech's frequent portrayal of stolid bureaucracy--intended as neutral moral backgroun to more intimate drama--as veiled protest against socialist rule). Most Czech films share an "unstylish", descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical...
Last week, as the G.O.P. adopted a new, stolid-looking elephant silhouette as a party symbol to convey strength, Nixon again allowed himself to be put into a posture of vacillation and weakness. The issue, in isolation, was hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure...
Temple Fielding has been called "a modern Baedeker." The description fits only in the sense that Karl Baedeker dominated the guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
...Chief Justice-designate is a son of the sturdy, stolid Middle West, the fourth of seven children born to parents of Swiss-German descent, Charles and Katharine Burger. The father was a railway cargo inspector who turned occasionally to traveling as a salesman of coffee or candy or patent medicines; the Burger brood was raised largely by the mother, who died only last year at 94. Mrs. Burger insisted that all the children attend Methodist Sunday school. The family moved in and around St. Paul; for a time they had a 20-acre farm, raising tomatoes to supplement the meager...