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...plain talk, this saga of the Young Pretender is too static to be a good adventure story...
...spite of reform, the pols always come back; the Sir Galahads, sooner or later, get licked, or get laughed out of court, or join the gang. But men like Adlai Stevenson have dedicated themselves to a more hopeful and more dynamic proposition: that the U.S. is not a static pattern but a still-continuing experiment-an experiment, among other things, in good government...
...above all, like all Americans, he is interested in things that are new. It must be admitted that, just now and then, preoccupation with the new leads to too little attention to old and tried principles; nevertheless it is thus that medicine in America is dynamic, not static...
Most of the philosophers consider sections of Marxist doctrine immutable, but they try to improvise where the Marxist theory has no practical application. The theme of the book may be the attempt of the authors to combine static Marxism, which they considered immutable, with the changing needs of their society...
...employees. Grede has refused to bargain collectively, and has no union contracts. He has licked the C.I.O. steel workers in strikes, or has headed off organizers by wage boosts, pensions, vacations and pay scales at the industry level. Says Grede: "Any group which destroys individual judgment makes for a static economy. To the extent unions do this, they...