Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haughtiness compares favorably with the shrill, uproarious melodramatics of The Red Menace, an anti-Communist crime buster included to illustrate the degree of frenzy that gripped Hollywood. Hollywood on Trial contains no revelations and no tough questions addressed to any faction. It does keep a decent, compassionate political equilibrium, and is to be admired accordingly...
...prepare themselves ever since the days when they set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope that it might, in all that it was and did, show mankind the way to liberty." Thus we would do battle for universal moral objectives, not for a new equilibrium−a war to end all wars, not a peace in which victors and vanquished sought a balance of their interests...
...world whose obsession with peace leads to appeasement. But neither will there be security in a world in which mock tough rhetoric and the accumulation of arms are the sole measure of competition. We can spare no effort to bequeath to future generations a peace more hopeful than an equilibrium of terror...
...situation right out of Ec 10. A secondary market was in operation, but because of imperfections in information exchange--or something like that--buyers and sellers were having trouble coming together in the marketplace to attain an equilibrium price. And judging by most of the prices being asked, it was a seller's market...
...Pinter's stage directions advise. In the Loeb Ex's sensitive production, however, the final spotlight rests on Anna. The meaning of the ending thus shifts slightly: Anna's inclusion in the household becomes as important as Kate's victory. Our last glimpse is of the unhappy equilibrium the three combatants have reached...