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...called the "Spectro-Chrome." A 1,000-watt bulb was propped up in the back of it, shining through red, yellow, green, blue and violet panes of glass. The instructions that came with the box reflected sunny assurance: it would "measure and restore radioactive and radio-emitive equilibrium by attuned color waves." It would also cure all diseases that man is heir...
Daily life, says Professor Giedion, has always been a series of movements set in space. The ancient Greek falsely saw the world as the "immovable center of the cosmos," and his classical temples were expressive of eternal equilibrium. Medieval man saw the world as something set in motion by the hand of God; he found peace in rooms whose lack of furniture ("movables") gave spacious tranquillity to his austere thoughts. His dinner table was set up on a trestle, promptly removed when he had eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks...
Therefore, America's problem in this respect will always be to maintain a correct balance between the two extremes. To achieve this desirable equilibrium, however, the present Central Intelligence Agency must be given much more power and independence than it has at the present time. Congressional investigations which will bathe the whole system in the killing light of publicity must be avoided. Instead, the Intelligence services and the State Department must quietly and efficiently combine to clean up and rebuild the faculty intelligence agency, which is essentially their responsibility. Unless the United States can renovate its outdated Intelligence immediately, more...
...year and a half ago Charles de Gaulle so feared that a threat to France's independence was implicit in Soviet-U.S. rivalry that he called for a Europe isolated from both groups, an element of "equilibrium" between the two. Since then, De Gaulle's icy isolationism has been thawing...
...respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...