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Operation Crossroads had been ballyhooed as the greatest laboratory experiment in all history. To the listening world, it sounded like an animal circus at feeding time. Static almost drowned out other sound effects: a dozen Donald Ducks quacked endlessly and often pointlessly...
...West there has been up to this time a lack of interest in the East except among a few businessmen, missionaries and statesmen. He characterized the people of the East, two thirds of the world population as being "in the process of a tremendous change from being static to dynamic members of the family of nations...
...Brady had never had a lesson, and her work showed it. But the best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
...world grimly determined that nothing shall remain static, the change-weary veteran who returns to Cambridge finds here no "back-to-normalcy" balm. Wherever he looks he sees a college in flux. His departure, it would seem, was the signal for new and uncertain educational ventures...
Because in writing Henry V Shakespeare was much hampered by the limitations of his stage, there was heavy work for the one-man Chorus, who, in persuasive and beautiful verbal movies, stirred his audience to imagine scenes and movement which the bare and static Elizabethan stage could not provide...