Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clurman's "First Voyage" is a clumsily conceived and haltingly executed tale of character conflict among four neurotic sailors. Containing a few excellent descriptive passages; it fails generally to get anything across, for psychological drama is fostered by change and development in the characters and mood which here remain static. The motivating secrets with which the men enter upon the scene are still secrets when they leave, and the reader refuses to absorb the mood when he cannot understand its source. This morbid flavor of the 'twenties, without the disillusioned bitterness toward mankind which produced it, is meaningless...
...defense. Brought to its most efficient peak in the Carolina maneuvers by First Army's wily Lieut. General Hugh Drum, the TD Battalion is already beyond the paper stage. The Army announced that 52 of the battalions had started organization and training, that it was abandoning its more static Tank Defense groups...
...Europe is not pretty, but it seems to me that there are considerable grounds to think it will not be as completely dark as the past eight years of Germany's dynamic advance have made us believe. With the scope of the army definitely checked, the regime must become static. To maintain itself it must satisfy the wants of the people, many of whom have a background of western humanism. The transfer of a nationalized economy, which has many socialistic principles in it, from a war to a peace footing may not prove a completely hopeless thing...
...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
...incurred the wrath of Brooklyn when static cut it off from Pittsburgh in the middle of a Dodger-Pirate game...