Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under these static circumstances, the play is not the thing, or even a play. Essentially, Happy Days is a monologue by a compulsive talker. A strident school bell signals the times when Winnie must wake and sleep; in between comes the terrible recess of endurance, the "happy day" to be survived. She utters a prayer, sings a song, chews the nostalgic cud of memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner...
...final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard the U.N. as "a static conference machinery for resolving conflicts of interest;" others conceive of it as "a dynamic instrument of governments" which not only seeks reconciliation, but attempts to develop "forms of executive action" to forestall conflicts...
...Hammarskjold emphasized that the static concept, that of a sounding-board for accusations, a sort of international steam valve, applies "to history and to the traditions of national policies of the past." But an international forum, which represented a tremendous advance 15 years ago, is no longer sufficient. Only a dynamic organization, in which governments unite for "more developed and increasingly effective forms of constructive international cooperation," can meet the challenges of a world which possesses the power of self-annihilation...
...which a station would broadcast the left signal on an FM frequency and the right signal on an AM frequency; the listener needed a separate radio for each signal, and, moreover, received poor-quality stereo because ordinary AM radio has a limited frequency range and is subject to static and other kinds of interference. MPX, on the other hand, uses a single transmitter that carries two sets of signals simultaneously to a single FM stereo tuner. The main carrier contains a combination of left and right (L+R) signals; a sub-carrier (the multiplex part) transmits the "difference" between...
...Radio receivers near the borders of the U.S.S.R. were the first U.S. instruments to report the news. Nuclear explosions in air generate sharp pulses of radio energy that can be picked up at great distances and clearly distinguished from everyday static. When two or more stations note the direction from which a pulse comes and the instant that it arrives, its point of origin can be calculated accurately...