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...ability to adapt himself to changing environment, brought on the scene the 'lord of creation' who was flexible enough to survive a variety of changes . . . This generalization has been both the strength and the weakness of man . . . While . . . specialized species either perished ... or stagnated in static societies . . . man rose from precariousness to precariousness . . . The point I want to make is that biological specialization can eventually lead to ... destruction or to a treadmill of repetition...
...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...
...Collar-studs" means collar-buttons. "Tin-openers" is British for can-openers. "Third Programme atmospherics" refers to static interfering with higher-browed broadcasts of the BBC. *Kant's view of the Ding ais sich (Thing-in-itself) may have been influenced by the fact that nothing whatever, not even marriage, ever happened to Immanuel Kant. He lived all his life in or near Königsburg; his habits were so regular that neighbors used to set their watches by his comings & goings...
Such material contributes much to understanding America today . . . The separation of one age group of our society (youth) from the realities of current American life by undue confinement to a curriculum that tends to be static may account for the inability of many adults to cope with current conditions...
Twenty times the planes were struck by lightning, which temporarily blinded the crew, burned off radio antennas, punched round holes in wingtips and tail surfaces. One pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just...