Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...construction. The plot of One Fine Day is much like an anecdote by Chekhov. A middle-aged Milanese advertising executive (Brunette Del Vita) has led a smug and comfortable life of reasonable success with his job, with his family and his women. Two intimations of death destroy this placid equilibrium: a colleague is stricken with a heart attack at a staff meeting and the executive himself accidently runs over a construction worker. The colleague recovers, and the executive is apparently acquitted of the manslaughter charge, but everything has been changed forever. The last scene finds him huddled at home with...
...mind: "These violent delights have violent ends." And in due course, another potency symbol-this time an Aston Martin-nearly kills the lovers. A curious kind of post-catastrophe serenity enters the novel. The puritan's dues have been paid, and for the moment all is in equilibrium. Jane, a blocked poet, can even write again...