Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from their clear achievements, largely in the matters of color and dynamic subtlety. Whether or not the structural question has been answered is problematical. Wolff and others say that sense of direction should not necessarily be looked for in this music, that many works ought to be regarded as static. If this is so, then aduiences will have to learn a completely new way of listening. It is not altogether improbable; since 1900 composers have learned new ways of writing that amount to a revolutionary change in style
...purpose of the society, as stated in its constitution, is "to provide a center for rocket research and experimentation." For this spring, the club plans a series of discussion groups to be led by various local profesors. They also plan the construction and static testing of a rocket...
...observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...
...distance-measuring equipment. But a navigator or pilot can get a fix by tuning in two stations and getting his bearing from each. His position is the point where the two bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters, their range may be only a few miles...
...Spain, and in some ways Author Goytisolo's hot-blooded young assassins are unmistakably Spanish. But there are gangs like the one he describes in just about every large city in the world. The Young Assassins has the virtue of sympathetically describing youth's restlessness in a static society. Its weakness is its failure to dramatize psychological motives, which its author is precocious enough to sense but not mature enough to understand...