Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kiddie fishing" and a Man-Made Mountain "for children to climb and explore to their hearts' content." And what sort of education will these children be getting? "Dynamic education," say Caudill & Co. grandly. "This must be, because education, like the American way of life, is ever changing, never static...
...Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said one crewman. "Too many things on your mind...
...cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously across the continent's face that static electricity is generated, and phantom flames dance eerily in the blinding drift...
...colleagues did last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. It began, more or less, during a matinee of Lucia di Lammermoor which was broad cast from coast to coast. Often Callas sang superbly, notably in the famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held his. What happened next could be the script for a third-rate opera buff...
...meant to be elevated and "Biblical," but sounds only like ridiculous affectation. Nor does deMille's work as a director help the actors. While he is unquestionably a fine director of crowds of extras and cattle and sheep, he is not very good with actors. His direction is incredibly static-the actors usually strike various postures within a group and step out of line only for a moment to deliver their oration. If deMille had permitted them to move and speak at a more natural rate, at least a quarter of the picture's excessive length would have been...