Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thayer's Virgin does look wrapped in taffy, the composition is static and the whole atmosphere is fuzzed with sweetness. But the picture's virtues more than offset its defects. It is magnificently drawn, subtly radiant in color, and a straightforward expression of the artist's reverence for girlhood and love of children. It can speak, gently, to the heart. Such works as Thayer's have been unjustly eclipsed in a critical age that winces at any expression of pure and lofty sentiments. Luckily, laymen are not so biased...
...demographers estimated that the 1975 population would be 180 million. Now the Census Bureau believes that the 1975 population could be 221 million. Nobody is alarmed. At low and static levels of technology, more people bring misery and famine. In an advancing technology, more people mean more plenty...
...their dealings with one another, the two nations have discovered likenesses. The Turks are Moslems but not Arabs; their Islamic ties are complicated by bitter relationships with the Arabs, whom they ruled for four centuries. Both Israel and Turkey are virile, modern and westward-looking inhabitants of an old, static and inward-looking region. Turkey admires Israel's compact little army as the region's second-best force (after her own), while Israel sees Turkey as the only other Middle East power of military significance. For Israel, an island in a sea of hatred, the new .neighborliness...
When David retires he leaves the Business School in its best financial, physical, and academic condition in twenty-five years. He leaves a strong faculty convinced that nothing in business education is static, and that the measure of a successful business school is its ability to keep itself one step ahead of industry...
Miss Christie tries to do both, and succeeds in doing neither very well. Her first act is a static, cumbersome affair, in which Leonard Vole, a murder suspect, relates his story to two English barristers. If action is dull and the dialogue not very witty, the act at least has the virtue of developing a situation and preparing the audience for the courtroom scene to follow. It also leads one to expect that the hero will be saved by some new and ingenious clue, and the drama will be resolved in terms of the circumstances and not the people involved...