Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantages that farming can offer-put their money into eggs. Early last year a new vaccine was swiftly eliminating Mareks disease, an affliction that used to wipe out 15% to 20% of the nation's hens every year. Besides, per capita egg consumption has remained virtually static at little more than 300 per person a year...
...proposal closely resembles a recommendation drafted by a sub-committee of the CHUL Monday. The recommendation for next year states that the number of women in the five "good" ratio houses must not exceed a balance of three men to one woman. This ratio will remain static in subsequent years allowing the other Harvard houses to equalize gradually...
Language, like the world it represents, can never be static. Even today the pun survives fitfully in tabloid headlines: JUDGES WEIGH FAN DANCER'S ACT, FIND IT WANTON. It survives in the humor of S.J. Perelman, the only post-Joycean writer capable of fluent bilingual flippancy: "lox vobiscum," "the Saucier's Apprentice," and the neo-Joycean "Anna Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which...
Strindberg explicates the bleakness of marital life by demonstration, as the program tactfully puts it, "ad nauseam." Alice and the captain don't even have the consolations that a family argument affords with its own drama, distinct identity and kiss-and-make-up reconciliation. Their condition is static bitchiness that will go on forever until death-do-them part. After a while of this, even after Kurt arrives, it's difficult not to hope that death had better hurry...
...Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...