Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
...other deputies (80) abstained. Abstention by the Communists got them out of their embarrassing spot as partners in debate of the Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It was also a fairly safe move because last week the radio to Moscow developed bad static, and neither Communists nor anybody else could discover what the Russian line was; Russia has not yet rejected the treaty...
...Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that had been part of Finland. Viipuri was ghostlike and still in the morning sun. The people were in rags. They were still living in dugouts and log houses. Few of the fields were plowed. Everything seemed static...
...make Gulielma and Mary aware that the present was never static, their young minds were constantly fed new thought. Gulielma Alsop sharply remembers the evening my father looked up at me from his book...
...series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...