Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this serious, painstaking adaptation of John Galsworthy's play are so obvious is partly because they are on the surface. Directed by Basil Dean, one of the backers of this British company which is planning wide-scale distribution in the U. S., the story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice from the public as more pretentious importations...
...speakers for a generation that is sated with the old order, hungry for the new chaos. Poet Robinson writes on the assumption that the proper study of the poet is the inner man, and in his poems he soliloquizes with sad coherence on the tangled emotional morals of a static mankind. Poets Auden and Spender are fiercely, often incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody...
...Round Hill, Mass. Professor Lawrence gets his effect by whirling a loin. disk in an 85-ton magnet. Last week he said that he was substituting a 40-in. disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already has a 1,000,000-volt model, will consist of a single metal ball and a metal-&-porcelain chain electron "conveyor," the whole contained in a vast steel vacuum tank. Expected voltage...
...lifetime propounding new education ideas, wanted immediate action. "Now if ever," said he, "is the time for educational change. Today things could be proposed that could not have been a few years ago, and perhaps could not be a few years hence when general conditions may be more static...
Like most of the world, Britain was last week worrying about the next war. On that subject her leading citizens were highly vocal. Pink-cheeked George Bernard Shaw led off with a short-wave radio broadcast on the subject "Whither Britain?" Through yawps of static, the U. S. heard his pleasant Irish voice : "The big question is, for instance, is Britain heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts...