Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near his recording studio and Mother Bertha Productions, a subsidiary corporation that publishes sheet music. His mother Bertha is a bookkeeper there. The move was delayed by Phil's reluctance to leave his $600-a-month Manhattan psychoanalyst. Now, however, he figures that he can "keep my equilibrium" by calling the analyst long-distance any time he needs instant therapy...
...fault is at least half Miller's. He knows too well that there is no simple choice between conscience and giving oneself over to the opposing forces, internal and external. That equilibrium is too much to expect from a man alone...
...stock market usually plunges on news of ominous or unsettling events-as it did for the Korean War, the Eisenhower heart attack, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination-and it usually takes days or even weeks to regain its equilibrium. Last week certainly produced enough news to unsettle Wall Street, but this time the market's reaction was different. Despite the Jenkins scandal, the Kremlin overthrow, the Chinese bomb and Labor's victory in Britain, the market dipped for only a few hours, quickly reversed direction, and by week's end had made up practically...
...hard part, a scarcely veiled reference to U.S. "hegemony" in Latin America. "We Frenchmen," he told a group of businessmen and farm leaders, "believe that from the points of view of economy, politics, influence and power, Latin America is an essential factor in a world which must regain an equilibrium. You are masters in your own house, and we wish that you remain...
Such violent, temporary therapy is hardly what the psychiatrist would prescribe. But the doctors concluded that the battlers seem to need "a frequent alternation of passive and aggressive roles to achieve a working equilibrium" and seldom change their ways until a third party horns in. The third party is usually a teen-aged son with protective feelings toward his mother and a less than friendly attitude toward Dad. What with the size of teen-agers these days, the fight often gets so furious that Mom finally begins to worry that someone may get hurt. Then she calls the cops...