Word: equilibrium
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...psychotop'-a place where you anchor your soul." France's famed Le Corbusier sounded the same note in a letter to the mayor. "Venice must be declared a sacred city," wrote Corbu. "Venice, without roads, is a city where the human nervous system can regain its equilibrium and man's heart open itself to serenity...
Brandt warned, however, that a lasting peace is necessary for the West to remain economically supreme. "To maintain the peace," he asserted, "we must maintain the military equilibrium," and Brandt chided the allies of the United States for not showing greater "spirit of confident cooperation" and "readiness to assume an adequate burden...
...wildlife often rhapsodize about the "balance of nature that keeps all living creatures in harmony," but scientists realistically point out that the balance was upset thousands of years ago when man's invention of weapons made him the king of beasts. The balance has never recovered its equilibrium; man is the dominant species on his planet, and as his fields, pastures and cities spread across the land, lesser species are extirpated, pushed into refuge areas, or domesticated...
Despite their achievements, and our reliance on them for effective defense--if only through developing that equilibrium of forces which has been called the balance of terror--it seems unlikely that the natural sciences alone will be able to save this beleaguered planet. We need, too, all the arts of understanding, of human relations, of persuasion, of negotiation and adjustment, of dealing with variables far more numerous and complex than those with which the natural sciences deal, or which are capable of resolution by computer...
...displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right but begrimed in an unhealthy context, which is what the film is trying to express from start to finish. Consistently, Courtenay preserves a delicate equilibrium between sympathy and repulsion; he manages to suggest a worthless hood who might have been a gifted contributor to another society-not a nice chap gone wrong, but rather a congenitally wrong one who might have gone right. Because this sort of role is so easy as a cliche (the whore...