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Taking off almost as much paint as he put on, Hofmann managed to achieve the magic he wanted. What could have been static and graceless chunks gradually assume life, like slow-motion dancers in a solemn ballet...
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University: I would expect the economy to show some improvement by autumn or the end of the year. But there is a need for Government pump-priming - unbalancing the budget - until private investment overcomes its static condition...
...vast advantage the Communists would have in space exploration through their ability to lift heavy loads aloft, the Eisenhower Administration got moving in 1958 on the 1,500,000-lb.-thrust Saturn booster, a relatively primitive design of eight engines in a single cluster. The Saturn has been static-tested, but will not be operational until 1965 or 1966. Only recently has the program been allotted anything more than a shoestring budget for research and development...
...photography was then in its rude infancy, and its slow action -10 to 30 seconds' exposure time-could not match the Special's quick hand and eye. Men such as Mathew Brady, best known of the Civil War photographers, lumbered up in their wagons to take static pictures after the battle, or gathered portraits of the generals and the men before the battle had begun. The fight itself was the province of the artist, who usually sat on a hilltop, scanning the battle with his glasses, and came down later to talk to survivors...
...some by his predecessors, his contemporaries and his students. The show commemorates the sooth anniversary of the artist's death, but it is also an attempt on the part of Spain to put Velásquez in proper focus. To the modern eye, his canvases have seemed somewhat static alongside the high drama of El Greco and the agonized intensity of Goya. Yet Velásquez sang a song of life as rich and full as any of his countrymen...