Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the president, the writer of the Gospel was showing how Jesus meant to put new life, symbolized by the wine, into the formalized and static religion of his time, symbolized by the water...
...This party of ours is free. We are the political captives of no section or interest of our country-and we are the prisoners of no static political or economic dogmas ruling our decisions. [We] make decisions not in the light of some rigidly preconceived political axiom, but in the only light in which we can clearly discern what is just-the peace and well-being of our whole people...
...holds that remembered items are stored in the brain as electrical impulses flowing endlessly around closed circuits of nerve cells. This cannot be true, says Dr. Gerard, because animals whose brains have been chilled to stop all electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...
...Tiomkin, who speaks fractured English splinted with a Russian accent, explains: "Hollywood begin to come to song mostly from matter of exploitation . . . When I make the title tune for High Noon, I think song help make continuity, musical dissolves, time element ... I thinking this picture a little bit too static. Music give feeling of action. I get inspiration from American bandit songs from Carl Sandburg's American Song Bag." The tune, with Lyricist Ned Washington's help, soon became a jukebox favorite, has sold almost 2,000,000 records. Tiomkin has already earned more in royalties than...
...more than a way of slicing up the pie; it is a way of increasing the size of it as well." But for all the gloomy evidence they unearthed, the authors nevertheless draw an optimistic moral: "If it is true that too much of our selling effort represents a static acceptance that there is only so much pie to go around, then it follows that there are scores of opportunities yet unseized." One big opportunity: genuine competitive selling as an instrument to keep the U.S. "relatively depression free...