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...Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static closeups, the poetic registrations of emotion, the grandiose, dancelike gestures of the players, broad as bad opera-or Michelangelo. When Ivan's enemies mugged fear, Frenchmen cheerfully shouted: "Cowards!" When the sound track jammed as Ivan received a chess set from Queen Elizabeth, someone in the balcony yelped: "Speech...
Land v. Sea. Some nations, declared Haushofer, were "static"-old, tired, with declining birthrates, content to hold on to what they had; others were "dynamic"-aggressive, young, with increasing birthrates, in need of more Lebensraum. A state was a living organism, quite justified in seizing what it needed to survive. For a dynamic nation like Germany, conquest was a natural biological function...
...crucial tenet with which he wrestles is the conventional doctrine of a static paradise in which the immortal souls of good Christians will spend eternity-"where, as in the palace of the Sleeping Beauty, we should find all life paralyzed, and the sun and moon preternaturally brilliant, both standing still...
...Exists? What does Existence mean? You will keep on implying some sort of static, ready-made reality which is, so to speak, 'there,' and to which our minds have simply to conform. These great mysteries cannot be approached in that way. . . . God, for me, is something purely spiritual. The spirit of sweetness and light and tolerance-and, er, service, Dick, service. We mustn't forget that...
Placed stoic heroes on a static page...