He said he was " animated " by the freedom of the American writers in contrast to the sedateness of English fiction.
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There were hoedowns as choreographed by Michael Kidd in the 1954 film musical " Seven Brides for Seven Brothers " and as danced, with charming sedateness, by Eleanor Roosevelt with young soldiers.
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But for true sedateness, you had to tune to PBS, which, despite a technical glitch or two, went about its business with a minimum of graphics and a maximum of sober assessments of matters mundane and cosmic.
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A down-to-earth man who preferred the clang and clatter of downtown Boston's Jacob Wirth's restaurant to the sedateness of the Locke-Ober restaurant, he enjoyed hunkering down before the television in his Back Bay home to watch football games.