Word: statical
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...should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...think marriage was made for an artist or an artist for marriage," declared Hit Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire), himself a bachelor. "He has to keep moving around. . . . There's something static about marriage...
...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...
...Network announced last night that its broadcasts to Eliot would be resumed "early next week" after the rewiring of circuits to the House is completed. Radios tuned to the local station have received only static since the transformer feeding Standish Hall and Eliot gave way under an overload last week...
...Arabs have vested interest in a static society," he declared, adding he had come to the conclusion that the Arab and Jewish societies are incompatible, and that partition is necessary...