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...Band plays differently today. It lives differently too. Both changes reflect a period of contemplation, and a hard-earned equilibrium. Three of them ?Robertson, Manuel and Danko?have lately married and have small children born within months of one another. In 1966 the group drifted up to Woodstock, N.Y., to be with Dylan after he broke his neck in a motorcycle accident. As he recuperated, they all played music together informally. Three songs on the Big Pink album also resulted, most notably Dylan's own I Shall Be Released...
...market economies as enemies, we might forge ? less dangerous world political system. Since the open door policy has failed to stabilize a revolutionary worid, endorsement of self-determination of nations as a principle of foreign policy might allow the tempest to run its course and find a new equilibrium. This Williams supported in The Tragedy, calling it "an open door for revolutions...
Even basic theoretical constructs in economics and government- such as equilibrium and stability- reflect a concern with maintaining the existing social order and tend to exclude the analysis of drastic change...
...said Lenin, "periodically restores the disturbed equilibrium" of a capitalist system. That comment, which is often echoed in the Communist world today, will not help his followers explain Wall Street's reaction to the Viet Nam Moratorium. A sea of demonstrators poured into Wall and adjoining streets, crowding them so tightly that people could hardly move. Hundreds of custom-tailored bankers and brokerage-house partners joined their clerks and college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church...
Wishful Thinking. Investors see the deep U.S. involvement in Viet Nam not as the restorer but as the destroyer of economic equilibrium. Stock prices have often risen markedly on nebulous peace hopes and dropped back when those expectations were frustrated. True, some industries profit from the war. But investors are well aware that, contrary to the cruel myth that capitalism generally thrives on war, the Viet Nam engagement aggravates social tensions that are bad for business. They also consider that war spending causes much of the inflation that the Federal Reserve's credit re-straints are designed...