Word: staticity
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Though Brooks insists that such people are the new wave, he presents a grim picture of a static middle class trapped in social pincers. Too insecure for parody, they attempt straightforward competitive display. Warns the author: "It may drive the not-quite-rich to bankruptcy, divorce, social disgrace, and misery. It may keep the poor in poverty despite rising wages and benefits. We deal with desperate people engaged in desperate actions...
...critics work at universities, and many faculty members here provide both the ART and undergraduate theater with invaluable encouragement. But there is a hidden danger for a professional company working within a university, whether its professors are friendly or hostile. The academic community believes in treating art as a static object, a repository for beauty and truth that can be interpreted and reinterpreted, but only from without--only if you don't touch. An essay on As You Like It that outlined Shakespeare's underlying mockery of the pastoral mode of poetry, in other words, is quite acceptable...
...euphoria of the spring shopping spree contrasts sharply with Israel's sorely strained finances within the world economy. "Our real crisis," says the Bank of Israel's Gafny, "is the fact that for the past seven years the economy has not been growing. Our G.N.P. is almost static." In 1980, in fact, the rise in G.N.P. was a mere .9%, a disaster for a nation that must pay ever higher import bills. Israel's energy bill alone, a relatively tiny $200 million in 1973, had increased tenfold by 1980, to $2.2 billion. Foreign debt stood...
Arguing that Marshner sees today's society and religion much more static than it is. Deats asked if "a living God" should "stop talking to Christians" in spite of widespread societal changes since Biblical times...
Lots of shoulder. Hot, hot." Dickinson visibly strained to generate the required radiance. She is well aware that to be an exciting model you need more than mere static, knockout looks...