A growing appreciation of the low-cost, high-value and good old-fashioned solidity of science and engineering relative to finance has, I believe, contributed to the new public mood, but as with all paradigmatic cultural shifts, there is more to it.
But reading "Riding the Bullet," I sorely missed the solidity of good old print on paper.
For many, especially those far from the intrigues and complexities of Wall Street, Merrill Lynch stands for solidity and good faith, principles that were rocked by the events of the last few months.
Because common sense has been drugged by fashion, albeit the "good" fashion for the solidity and workmanship that originally endeared the premises to the new owner, no normal instinct survives to question the destruction of the irreplaceable, or the validity of the fake that pretends to improve on it.
The contrast between the soft, milky blandness of the bread and the solidity of a good, coarsely ground sausage is a key pleasure of the sausage sandwich.
Really good actresses have a mysterious solidity about them, Peter Bogdanovich once told Ellen Burstyn, one of the finest to come to prominence during the 1970s, when film roles for women were rich and textured, when the Suffering Wife had not yet become its own Oscar category.
Back in 1794, after the fact, Hamilton said: "The insurrection will do us a great deal of good and add to the solidity of everything in this country".
Solidity is a good descriptor of cell deformability, indeed, as it describes in geometrical terms the stiffness and deformability of an object.
The Africans are not the model of solidity right now.
Normally this would be a good thing, but I like many people equate solidity and weight with quality.
