Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that these rectangular planes were too dominating and would somehow have to be destroyed. His solution was to drain the color from the rectangle and pour it into the lines. The unhampered play between the verticals and horizontals then seemed to produce a kind of rhythm, a "dynamic equilibrium" that was like the pulse of life...
...chosen to rest his case on a metaphor suggested by Professor Charles Osgood of the University of Illinois. Osgood describes the actions of two men standing on either side of a see-saw. When one takes a step backward, the other is obliged to do likewise to preserve the equilibrium of the system. As the two men continue to move backward to the ends of the see-saw, the board on which they are standing strains to the cracking point, and the balance becomes more precarious...
...much better it would be if one man took the initiative to move forward, toward the center of the see-saw. His opponent would then be obliged to respond in kind to preserve equilibrium. Progressive movement toward the center, says Osgood, would lesson the tension on the board and minimize the effect of a single wrong step. And so it would. Osgood's teeter-totter tale is sound physics. It is not very good practical politics...
...going. But this year, interest rates have risen scarcely at all-despite the fact that the Federal Reserve industrial production index hit an alltime high of 112 in July. Says Vice President John J. Barry of Boston's National Shawmut Bank: "Right now there seems to be an equilibrium between supply and demand for funds...
...Equilibrium of Masses. Maillol would have been at home in ancient Greece. On his first visit to Piraeus, he declared that he had "come home to Banyuls, the same houses, same windmills, same trees and flowers." When a student later said to him, "The Acropolis must have struck you in the face," Maillol quietly replied, "On the contrary, it gave me a kiss." Like early Greek statues, Maillol's nudes wear an expressionless gaze; his statues are neither anecdotal nor are they portraits. "I look for beauty, not character," he said. "I look for architecture and volume. Sculpture...