Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human groups grown powerful are primarily interested in education for their self-perpetuation, i.e., for the perpetuation of the forms which preserve and extend their power. Their goals are largely static in that they orient not toward expansion and development of human potentialities in the planetary community, but toward status quo preservation; regardless of what 'objective study and conscientious investigation' may suggest. Education for freedom and mature adulthood is obviously not compatible with an inflexible socio-cultural milieu hostile to all change which might affect its structural lineaments...
...charts to Paris." What General Salan did not say, being a professionally reticent man, is that the unpopularity of the war back home in France-and fear of its cost in casualties and money-had forced him to wage a war of cautious maneuver, as in Laos, or of static defense, as in Hanoi...
...demonstration in Germany, the Decca Navigator made a strong impression on U.S. pilots who fly the Berlin Corridor, where trigger-happy Russians are apt to fire on straying airplanes. Rivals of Decca point out that it uses long-wave radio waves and is therefore apt to be bothered by static. Decca replies that special static-proof antennas and similar devices have practically licked the static problem...
Making fun of everything around them, the Dadaists printed weird books and magazines with nonsense titles such as The Blind Man and Rongwrong. There was an ear-splitting kettledrum music to which devotees shrieked verses in gibberish; they built powerfully useless machines, wrote ridiculous "chemical" and "static" poems. Their art was a lunatic satire on all advance-guard art: "modern" pictures of women with matchstick faces, cut-out heads filled with grinding gears and cogs. And when they held an exhibition, they were likely to walk around with white gloves but without ties, meow like cats, carefully count the pearls...
...Oscar Wilde. Adapted for the screen by John Davis, and directed by Anthony Asquith, the play loses nothing in the transition. In fact, the camera might have focused directly on the stage production, for it avoids any distant, or off-angle shots, and yet is never static...