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...designating the nation as a community." In a day of multiculturalism, a day of rapidly changing demographics, the challenge of rebuilding the architecture of community looms larger than ever before. If Clinton can cement the coalition his campaign scraped together -- bringing disparate interests and values into some sort of equilibrium, however uneasy -- he may do more than secure his political fortunes. He just may help lay the foundations of a truly New Society...
...mind to impose an artificial certainty on the flux of vision. The resolution of his great 1914 still life, Goldfish and Palette, is provisional; on either side of the black central column things teeter and lean; even the curlicues of the black iron balcony seem held in a fragile equilibrium...
...whole trip." To this day Clinton calls his Uncle Buddy "the wisest man I ever met." (Clinton talks Southern hyperbole, which raises a language barrier for some Northerners.) He describes his uncle and his mother in the same terms: they have weathered many trials with unfailing equilibrium and good humor. There is a streak in the Arkansas character that militates against expecting too much from life (and militates, as well, against political reform). I am not as surprised as I was when Clinton first told me that one of his favorite books is the stoical Meditations of Marcus Aurelius...
...which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed, he was practicing an early kind of art for art's sake, in which formal inflection and delicacy, combined with an exquisite instinct for the equilibrium of masses, reigned supreme...
Crystal Growth Kinetics Far From Equilibrium--by Michael Aziz, associate professor for applied physics, Division of applied Sciences. Pierce Hall, room...