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...Must Not Remain Static...
...added that the "quality of our education must not remain static as a result of the attempt to meet the rapidly increasing number of students...
Under these static circumstances, the play is not the thing, or even a play. Essentially, Happy Days is a monologue by a compulsive talker. A strident school bell signals the times when Winnie must wake and sleep; in between comes the terrible recess of endurance, the "happy day" to be survived. She utters a prayer, sings a song, chews the nostalgic cud of memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner...
...final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard the U.N. as "a static conference machinery for resolving conflicts of interest;" others conceive of it as "a dynamic instrument of governments" which not only seeks reconciliation, but attempts to develop "forms of executive action" to forestall conflicts...
...Hammarskjold emphasized that the static concept, that of a sounding-board for accusations, a sort of international steam valve, applies "to history and to the traditions of national policies of the past." But an international forum, which represented a tremendous advance 15 years ago, is no longer sufficient. Only a dynamic organization, in which governments unite for "more developed and increasingly effective forms of constructive international cooperation," can meet the challenges of a world which possesses the power of self-annihilation...