Word: stolidness
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Fifty years ago her grandfather had been the last British monarch to visit India. Stolid King-Emperor George V had to be reminded by his viceroy to wave to the populace so as to elicit the cheers befitting the occasion. Last week India's President Rajendra Prasad recalled pointedly that, back in that day, "the circumstances were different." But the unfond memory was not permitted to mar his granddaughter's visit. Although observers rated the welcome accorded President Dwight D. Eisenhower as more spontaneously enthusiastic, the pomp and the grand occasions befitting an empress were not denied Elizabeth...
...Manhattan to urge the regime to reconvene Parliament and give imprisoned Patrice Lumumba a fair trial. As they talked, rowdy groups of pro-Lumumba and pro-Kasavubu men shouted at and slugged one another outside U.N. headquarters. It was hardly a favorable atmosphere for promises of peace, but the stolid President grandly announced he would give it another try-with a round-table conference of all Congolese leaders on Jan. 25. Lumumba's own variety of roundup seemed to be proving more effective...
...sentimental novel-the childhood love who dies of consumption, the mother who starves herself to buy her son's art supplies, and the chance meeting, when all seems darkest, with the count's fair young daughter. Now and then the prose gavottes giddily from its stolid march formation ("Before his sun of life had reached its noonday zenith, he returned to the inscrutable Infinite . . ."), and the author is too fond of teasingly retrieving his hero from the brink of fleshly ruin...
Oddly enough, Frenchmen are supposed to be very emotional and quick to display their feelings; you certainly wouldn't say so from The Grand Maneuver. The acting was quite stolid and spiritless. M. Philippe, alternately confident and cowed, displayed a rather narrow range of emotions, and I wished at times that he would explode in anger or dissolve in passion, instead of just standing still and raising his eyebrows. Michele Morgan, the disillusioned milliner, was also rather static; it seemed that the director had instructed her to play a long-suffering, cynical woman, and that's about...
Americans, it would seem, are depressingly stolid, unemotional people. When a similar event occured recently in Iran, the populace filled the streets of Tehran, singing and shouting; a bank holiday was declared; and the Shah bestowed lavish gifts upon his happy people. Even in England, the event was a cause for some well-mannered public celebration...