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...oddest factor in the Eisenstein technique is the feeling of motion that he maintains with essentially static grouping and poses. Telling a good part of his story by shifting the camera from group to group, Eisenstein at no time dwells long enough on any subject to create the boredom attending many of the silent films that, like Alexander Nevsky, give the main role to the director and his camera...
...single ounce of Nu-Soft added to the final rinse water, says Harshaw, will eliminate static electricity from wool and nylon, leave all clothes soft, fluffy and easy to iron. Price...
...have said little else . . . One of my anxieties . . . has been *lest a rigid system be imposed on mankind and that fragile quality, his capacity for novel ideas, for novel aspects of old ideas, be frozen and he go on century after century . . . until he and his society reach the static level of the insects . . . You may have wondered at my coolness, not to John Dewey personally . . . but to his thought. The reason is that the emphasis of his thought is on security. But the vitality of man's mind is in adventure...
...Static Balance...
...emphasizing that a balance of power is not a static thing, Stevenson criticized the theory of instantaneous atomic retaliation as insufficient to retain such a balance. Such a policy prevented neither Korea nor the situation in Indochina, he said...