Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sniffs Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman: "An artificial issue. I think most designers are happy to be part of an avant-garde development-though some undoubtedly prefer the more static, conventional photograph." Says Vogue's Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland: "I've never heard of any criticism and never heard of any argument...
...Thomson decided to become a farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...
...Benedict and Richards, along with Bronia Stefan's insufferable but accurate portrayal of an American woman, have essentially static roles. The only character given a chance to change is Burris De Benning's Ferdinand, the "very young man" of the title. He gets to change from an overserious young man given to posing to a slightly more mature man, overserious and given to posing. De Benning ages the four years well enough but by the last scene I was no longer interested...
...interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer...
...Asian Bank is taking shape at a time when development aid to the world's needy countries is falling steadily behind their needs. Despite rising prosperity in the U.S. and Europe, the flow of aid from these sources has remained static since 1961 at $9 billion a year, now amounts to a trifling .9% of the developed nations' total output of goods and services. Last week Lyndon Johnson signed a comparatively modest $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriation, but the U.S. still carries more than its share of aid. Despite nudging from Washington, Europe has been slow to pick...