Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fails to give any specific idea of what their roots might be and concentrates on the possibility of refuge from his problems in an equally unspecific God. He manages to create a mood in time, but it has neither origins nor resolution. It is a mood of self-centered static despair. Taken in small doses, Berryman's despair is palatable, and the poems are individually very impressive for their not necessarily pleasant combination of craftsmanship and desperation...
...watercolor has two roots. One is in pen-and-wash drawing, the other in the more static and ceremonious art of miniature painting. The first item in the Morgan catalogue is a painting of an imaginary noble savage, A Young Daughter of the Picts, by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Le Moyne, a French artist who worked in England in the 16th century, voyaged to Florida in the early 1560s. There he saw Indians-and concluded that there had to be a likeness between them and the lost tribes of primitive Britain. Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped...
...This year, though, most of the customary groans and hisses were reserved for the slenderest and the newest categories. One judge, Lore Segal, a writer of juveniles, filed a solid minority objection when the children's book prize went to Fantasist Donald Barthelme for his arch and static The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering, Thithering Djinn...
...style of the younger militants. His once-envied achievement of making it in Whitey's world on Whitey's terms seemed increasingly frivolous to separatists eager to develop an independent set of black values. His demagogy remained effective only as long as the situation of blacks remained static. When vicarious achievement was no longer enough for blacks, Adam Clayton Powell became irrelevant and, ultimately, an embarrassment to the cause he had championed theatrically for so long. But even though his time came and went, more than most men he seemed to enjoy every minute...
...photography is so static that the movie sometimes seems paralytic. Occasionally Director Saul Swimmer will suffer a pang of social conscience and cut away to grainy documentary footage of starving refugees.* He does this so casually and irregularly, however, that the effect is gratuitous...