Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and member of the Federal Reserve Board, speaking at the opening meeting of the Oriental Club on Monday evening, urged the necessity of creating an international trade equilibrium after...
...Present Mood? In his view no government on earth has attained a respectable measure of democracy: they have all forfeited democracy-willingly (the U.S., Great Britain), forcibly (Germany, Italy), by necessity (Russia). At the beginning of the 20th Century the old equilibrium of middle-class society vanished; society needed "a diet of great reforms." The overwhelming necessity for their appearance and the dread of the frightening consequences that might follow their introduction created the atmosphere of apathy, fear, timidity, bewilderment, in which, during the prewar years, democracy's citizens lived...
...unsafe foundation for world peace; we know that extreme nationalism and high barriers against free movement of goods and persons are a menace to international good feeling, but we do not know just how we can avoid these dangers without running into others. Can we secure an equilibrium by raising the less fortunate countries to something like our level of well-being, without lowering our own, and how can this be done? How free should trade be? How much mingling of different races in business, industry and general social relations is beneficial to both sides and to the human race...
...Egypt Rommel was stopped for the time being, but it was no stalemate. Both sides were bringing up reinforcements and the forces accumulating were growing too big for any equilibrium in the narrow position they fought for. Something had to give. If Rommel gave, he might have to run all the way back to Libya to prepare another assault. But if Britain's General Auchinleck gave, it would be downhill for Rommel to Alexandria. The shadow still hung heavy over the Middle East...
...notice how the composer has to prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes of singing in musical literature, from a purely musical standpoint develops logically from the rest of the symphony, but, in my opinion, does not quite equal the other three movements in inspiration...