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...believe in orderly change. Nothing is static in this world. All the changes that have been brought about in South Africa were brought about by this government, by my predecessors and myself. But "change" is just a parrot cry -change to where and to what? Nobody can tell you, as evidenced by the fact that [South Africa's parliamentary opposition] can't find an alternative to the policy of the government...
...bring about a dialogue between us and you to bridge this gap in a peaceful and creative way and fulfill on a world scale some of your achievements in America. But the process of give-and-take between the Third World and the more advanced world is not a static process. The dynamic interchange should enrich us both so that we can produce the kind of world system that can achieve peace, stability and the unhindered pursuit of happiness for all, while preserving individual identity in a community of free people the world over...
...Crimson ran a story about a missing person of unknown identity. Gone was the fanfare, the Hasty Pudding's massive publicity, the flash-bulb impressions. Gone were the front pages of every major newspaper. Gone were our illusions about ourselves and the world. Gone was our mythology. Static...
...secret-swinger life-style energized the Nixon years and turned them into the Kissinger era. To critics, such as a former Cabinet rival, "most of Kissinger's performance was theater and the rest was fiction." His "balance of power" approach has been attacked as reflecting a static view of the world that overemphasized superpower relationships and squandered American assets without deriving strategic benefits. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis has accused him of conducting foreign policy with "cynical brutality." Kissinger shrugs off attacks with a quip: "Even a paranoid can have enemies." Some of them, apparently, are real enough...
...theater, Williams's compendium of Dylan Thomas tends to be overly static, with little movement, either physical or dramatic. Sound and lighting instead become all-important--sound lulling us into acceptance of the comic and celebratory world of the sketches and stories, lighting marking changes of mood within this world and signalling breaks between tales...