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Last week came the ultimate cross. Warsaw announced a series of "price adjustments" designed to bring wages -which have been rising at 2% during 1970-and available goods into some kind of equilibrium. The cost of medicines and most industrial goods declined. The price tags on television sets went down 13%, on washing machines 17%, and on vacuum cleaners 15%. At the same time, however, food prices were drastically increased. Beef went up 19%, assuming that one could find it, flour 16% and salted herring 19%. The cost of ersatz coffee nearly doubled. The government also announced that wages would...
...material blessings. From the savage raid and slavery down to the industrial problems of today, the recurring civilizations have been largely built upon false economic forces, backed up by equally false moral and religious casuistry. The civilizations that have come and gone have been inherently lacking in equilibrium because they have been built upon the injustice of exploitation. There is no reason to suppose that modern civilizations must repeat this cataclysmic rhythm. It is these forms of exploitation and domination that are being challenged by the revolt of modern forces of production as a whole against bourgeois relations of production...
...search for what cannot be disintegrated is intense, forcing the viewer to re-examine that perilous equilibrium we like to call normality. "We have to submit to the attack in the way we have to learn to enjoy a cold shower-bath," wrote Bridget Riley's admirer and mentor, the perceptual psychologist Anton Ehrenzweig. "There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around...
...IMPORTANT to distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the lowrise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
...moved the fig leaf from the genitals to the face. With his new film Meyer has gone against his own grain. His Valkyries have lost much of thier sexual authority and at times in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...