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...military theorists the South Pacific was still a static battle area. But in the day-to-day run of patrols and minor battles, new heroes were born, new air tactics proved by flyers grown skillful and canny in the school...
Spotty and somewhat static, Three's a Family too often repeats its good jokes, half-kills their effect with bad ones. But it has its very funny moments. Really hilarious is a scene where a half-dead, three-quarters blind old baby doctor (well played by William Wadsworth) gropes his way around the apartment, diagnosing...
...request of Colonel L. O. Grice of the QMC, a group of Harvard and Alpine Clubbers organized a joint testing expedition of static and mobile equipment. The Crimson Mountaineers had used photographs of Army Observers, have been landed by bombers, and have been parachuted food in their conquest of various mountains in Alaska...
...admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol and too little as a person to permit the literal dramatic treatment attempted in this production. A complete realization of the "song...
...production? WPB has estimated that some $56 billion of goods and services (almost 50% under last year's consumer goods boom) is the least that the U.S. needs. But no estimate of a bedrock economy (even assuming that it could be accurate in the first place) is static: in a long war, as goods wear out, one year's bedrock can turn into the next year's breakdown, as need for replacements and repairs mounts...