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...petroleum and copper companies without incurring American sanctions. The country, moreover, has enjoyed economic progress under military rule, with an annual growth rate of 5%, although countless Peruvian poor in the Lima slums still subsist outside the economy. Though some militant political parties are banned, Peruvians are allowed to belong to opposition parties and generally enjoy a wide range of civil liberties...
...Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about the 1914 world conflict. Welles's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificient Ambersons is okay, but doesn't really belong with these classics. Monday night's Marx Brothers comedy, Room Service, is hardly one of their funniest and you should probably see Annimal Crackers in Boston instead. The 39 Steps, also playing Monday, is one of the best mysteries that Hitchcock (or anyone) ever made...
...Billy Graham and his key colleagues reject any suggestion that the Continuation Committee might build up an Evangelical organization to rival the council. For one thing, two-fifths of the Evangelicals who came to Lausanne belong to churches that are members of the World Council. Still, Graham warned that if the Geneva liberals did not "carefully and prayerfully" heed the message of Lausanne, a rival group is a "possibility in the distant future...
...really applied himself, he'd be terrific. As a writer, he knows how human beings work, which is crucial for a magician. He's also a little crazy, and that helps too." Yet Kanfer remains modest: "The real magic for me is in words, not things. I belong behind the typewriter, not on the stage. When a really good magician performs, I'm the world's biggest geek...
That automatically included politicians and government officials, as well as businessmen, educators, lawyers, scientists, journalists. The definition ruled out many Americans who are truly outstanding in their fields but who really belong in another category. They exemplify what John Gardner describes as "virtuoso leadership"-the diva, the poet or novelist, painter or actor. They may be a fresh inspiration and their audiences may be vast, but they are basically soloists, and we felt that they should be included only if their work had a clear, direct impact on society...