Word: equilibrium
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...audience. The audience's expectations, the mental gymnastics they undergo in searching for a meaning, are taken into account by the author and find their way into the dialogue of the actors. Pinter defies his audience to break out of their habit of categorization, to upset their "intellectual equilibrium". Do we ever know, he asks, the real motivation of the complex people who live in our "real" world? In fact, do we even know what is "real" and what is not? Audience, actor, and author, working together at the Boston Center for the Arts, grapple with just those questions...
...movements) for the third quarter of 1971 alone was $3.1 billion, more than the deficit that was run up during all of last year. By agreeing to devalue, Nixon added a major ingredient to a brew of monetary and trade changes that should within two years produce a rough equilibrium in the U.S. balance of payments...
When the U.K. and France acted, Dulles erupted in '"hostility amounting almost to frenzy. There may have been other reasons. Perhaps the grim disease which was later to prove mortal had affected his psychological and intellectual equilibrium. Perhaps the spectre of Soviet Russia, now armed with the terrible nuclear weapon, had begun to haunt his dreams. He clearly lost his temper; he may also have lost his nerve. In any event, we and our French allies were now to face an attack, skillfully devised and powerfully executed, in which the protagonists were the Russian and American Governments, acting together...
...toads, each of which can devour 300 cricket nymphs a night. But for four years in Brazil's Northeast, toads have been hunted for skins, which sell well in the U.S. to make purses, belts and watchbands. Without toads, the cricket population exploded. Until the two get into equilibrium again, St. Sebastian has his work...
...economic revival grows to the point where further substitution of New Enterprise for Underemployed Housing and Declining Industry is not economically justifiable, the deadly flow of Premium and Worker Housing to the Underemployed category resumes. Eventually, after the cycle has completed several ever-decreasing rotations, a condition of equilibrium is reached with the surrounding environment. It is an equilibrium characterized by very low levels of New Enterprise (and the upward job mobility which accompanies it for all classes) and by large numbers of the Underemployed. The city is stagnating indefinitely...