Word: staticity
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...good talker. Unlike a great majority of the Harvard population, being articulate is not a skill that I have cultivated. The static on my phone line is not generated by electronic interference, but by my own communication difficulties. I fully embrace the prolonged ellipsis, the parenthetical "you-know-what-I-mean" and the awkward pause. Rather than punctuate my fragmented sentences, I let them trail off into my preferred word of closure: "whatever." To the well-trained listener the frequent "like"s that corrupt my language keep an expert tempo--to the rest, I babble...
Today is National Abortion Providers Day, honoring those who routinely place themselves in the line of fire to make sure that women's constitutional right to choose remains uninfringed. Roe v. Wade is not an static law; its survival rests on the shoulders of some of the most courageous individuals in our country...
Until De Hooch goes to Amsterdam, the work is all plain, in surface, substance and gesture. There's scarcely a hint of theatricality in the way his Delft models look. The figures in A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, circa 1658, are circumspect and static. True, the man on the left seems to be mimicking a violin player with two clay pipes, but it would be hard to imagine a more decorous drinking party, and the glass of wine the woman raises is more like a chalice than an attribute of Bacchus, let alone Venus. Their...
...each of his pauses for applause, Mr. Henriksen gave some history of the next composer's work, outlining as he proceeded chronologically from the Renaissance to the Baroque some of the changes and experiments in lute technique and tunings. Just as the physical structure of the lute was never static, lute music during the "grand" century was in a constant state of experimentation...
...could not work for his company's competitors or a different industry. He had to sell item Y for company X or die trying. Thus, as we, graduating seniors, exploit the investment banks and the consulting firms in the name of career opportunities, we rebel against the old, more static career models. Our job market is one of tremendous horizontal and vertical mobility; to stay too long at one place just does not make good economic sense...