Word: disequilibriums
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This dying light is marvelously mirrored in the smoky anguish of Alec Guinness' eyes, and it gives him the look of a man ravaged by the pain of being and the dread of not being. Perfectly miming every state of alcoholic disequilibrium, Guinness does a dance of death at ever-varying tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march...
...that "the narrowing of the horizons of Soviet ambition in the face of growing Western strength and unity could conceivably lead irresponsible or incompetent leaders into some desperate gamble to reverse the tide." The dangers, Fulbright said, are obvious: "When a great power is confronted with an increasingly unfavorable disequilibrium in the scales of world power, it may be tempted to act rashly to reverse the trend...
...lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates. But the job of equalizing the world's moneys proved too much for the fund (see FOREIGN NEWS). However, with the bank, the Allies could get on with the practical business of reconstruction and economic development by promoting "private foreign investment . . . and when private...
...sacred cows and D.P.S from Pakistan, yet I love Calcutta with its dank tenements and narrow alleys. I am proud of Calcutta, as a New Yorker is proud of New York City. As yours is God's own country, you are supposed to be free from any mental disequilibrium. To keep the mind of His favorite children on an even keel . . . you are provided with the largest number of psychiatrists. Unfortunately, we have only one psychiatrist who can surpass all of yours...
...disequilibrium is the concern of a new Faculty committee which is expected to study how to place and also how to cut down the surplus Ph.D.'s. One University official has described the attempt to discourage advanced study in the social sciences as a policy of "negative guidance...