Word: equilibrium
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Coming to the city from the jungle with his two brothers, one black and one white, Macunaima is at first confused because he cannot tell the difference between men and machines. He quickly recovers equilibrium and shacks up with a female guerrilla. With great zest she makes war by day and love by night, while Macunaima spends his day lounging in her hammock...
...some administration of some given time of history, is in fact serving the real ideal that every free man should fight for and I am among them. But unfortunately for this time of the human rebuild-up we are converging towards a new world and I think the new equilibrium has not been found yet. That's why we haven't been able so far to find our real wise solution, but in fact there are some basic rules. As long as every nation would recognize to every other nation with the same rights asked by themselves--the right...
...startled by the change in their own leaders' attitudes, but they, after all, live under a system not too distant from 1984's state-manipulated memory control. Subject to no such constraint, however, the American public could be excused if it found its neck wrenched and its equilibrium upset by the surprising spectacle of Nixon chumming it up with his former enemies and sitting patiently through a revolutionary ballet in Peking...
...matched by his lamenting the need for such tenacity. He reminds those of us who advocate radical change of both our ultimate goals and awesome responsibilities; we fight in the last instance not on behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace the old one we try to shatter
...ambiguity highlights Yanos' tragic loss of equilibrium. His thoughts, he feels, have made him an adulterer. He no longer deserves his kind unsuspecting wife: his secret immorality estranges him from her. Just as the circumstances culminating in Anada's death can never be fully resolved. Yanos may or may not have caused through his neglect his wife's death to keep his timagined? sin from her. In the hazy world of sexual guilt, chronology has become unclear: only Yanos' tragic disintegration is certain...