Word: staticity
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Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art celebrated its 15th birthday last week. The celebration took the form of a massive show which was to earlier Modern Museum shows as lightning to static electricity. Only at the risk of shin splints did gallerygoers poke into all the corners of the Museum's spectacular open house. Outstanding were...
...Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." De Gaulle had to nurse his dreams. He inveighed against the doctrines of static defense (the Maginot Line) which be mused the General Staff. He urged an elite, mechanized, relatively small army of attack. Almost nobody listened except the Germans, who applied his teachings in the development of the streamlined Reichswehr and later the mighty Wehrmacht...
...broadcasting stations chiefly heard, Arabs listened most (in this order) to: Cairo, London, Jerusalem, Beirut, Sharq-el-Adna, Damascus, New York, Moscow. New York is static-bound (in summer) and in a poor position on the Arab's time schedule. Not enough Arabs know Russian to give Radio Moscow a good score...
...when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause you to be on time for classes with both eyes open, though the rest of you be closed; when all these things culminate in a full dress uniform, a bridal veil, and a minister ... brother...
Local or General? This week, the Eastern Front no longer surged westward. Instead, it had become a fluid line, moving east at some points, moving west at many, static at most. Though handicapped, the Red units in the western Ukraine still presented a force seemingly too formidable to be swept into the Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses...