Word: staticity
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Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
...some instances the machinery of a government determines the nature of its dynamic force. To that extent the static approach can not be neglected. But if an elementary course is calculated to attract, not dissuade men from following its field, Government I must concern itself more with the living forces of the states studied...
...Faster heat radiation, lengthening life. 2) Smaller size, saving space. 3) Better lead wire arrangement, improving short-wave reception. 4) Increased protection against magnetic and static interference (especially in airplanes and automobiles). 5) Less risk of damage in handling, shipping, rough use. 6) Short lead wires, promoting better amplification at high frequencies...
...vestibule of the ear, the organ which controls the body's static balance and is intimately related to sea sickness, is the first organ to become functionally mature-because the fetus needs it for floating safely in the waters of birth. At birth the ear's vestibule is as big as it ever will...
...this serious, painstaking adaptation of John Galsworthy's play are so obvious is partly because they are on the surface. Directed by Basil Dean, one of the backers of this British company which is planning wide-scale distribution in the U. S., the story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice from the public as more pretentious importations...