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...color page), were abstract, which was nothing new-but their kind of abstraction was. It was peculiarly inert and casual looking. This, it became clear, was because Judd has no interest in "composition"-the play between major and minor elements in a work of art, tuned into equilibrium. This elimination of hierarchies had never been tried in sculpture before, though it was very much a feature of advanced New York painting in the early '60s-the striped patterns of early Stella, the symmetrical chevrons of Noland. So it seemed that Judd had contrived to declare in sculpture...
...Revolutionary Age. In it, he discussed the diplomatic deals and maneuvers by which a handful of foreign ministers-particularly Metternich and Viscount Castlereagh-restructured post-Napoleonic Europe and set the course of history for more than a century. In A World Restored, Kissinger argued that "stability based on an equilibrium of forces" was ultimately responsible for the relative calm of Europe in the decades preceding World War I. His fascination, however, lay clearly not with physical force as such, but rather with the clever ploys and double entendres of great power diplomacy...
Pretty Good Idea. The chief worry is that if there is no progress, the rough equilibrium in nuclear weapons that now exists between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will eventually be upset. Already, both sides have started running the next lap in the arms race: the U.S. has begun deploying Hydraheaded, almost unstoppable MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle) missiles in the Minuteman 3 and Poseidon submarine programs, and the Soviets may be on the verge of fitting their giant S59 missiles with multiple warheads...
...Catholic of the subtitle is Dr. Thomas More, a collateral descendant of the saint. He is also alcoholic, and, at 45, his health and equilibrium have become very shaky. "At the time that I developed liberal anxiety," he mourns, "I also contracted conservative rage and large-bowel complaints." Much of his time is spent mooning over three dizzy young girls whom he loves equally in a rather abstracted way. Deeply skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing...
GARLAN MORSE: I don't think the nontariff barriers-import quotas, discriminatory taxes and the like-are understood by the public or by industry or even by Government. But these barriers are so important that just to renegotiate the tariff scales back and forth to bring some equilibrium does not solve the problem...