Word: staticity
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...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...
...tons. There was the inescapable luncheon at the Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite (to minimize the static electricity) and assembled at the blast of a trumpet-the gift of Manhattan's musicians-playfully tooted by father John. For relaxation they spent successive evenings at the theater, at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and at Camelot. Glenn's sense of humor flashed when...
Some of the young people are delicate and handsome; others, done by less gifted artists, are flat and static. The most unusual figure is of a youth lying on his back. The lines of this statue are softer and more classical than those of the others, but all the statues give new evidence of the closeness of Etruscan to Roman art. Says Professor Mario Moretti, regent of the Villa Giulia: "It's very hard to say at this point where Etruscan art ends and Roman Republican art begins...
...Zeffirelli, who also designed the superb, dusty-streets-and-bright-sunlight Veronese sets. Over the years, productions of the play have steadily stiffened and solidified; the blood has gone out of the sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion underground...
...evoke ancient Aztec and Incan civilizations. It combines the performance effects of Ravel and Debussy, the rhythmic drive and insistence of Bartok, and a peculiar harmonic clarity which could be interpreted as simple-mindedness. Both the first and second movements, in spite of constant, rapid, and vigorous rhythms, remain static on D. Open fifths, played tutti, reinforce the strength of the rhythms. The quartet suggests Bartok's brutality, but lacks Bartok's subtlety, variety, and startling originality...