Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pedro Beltrán is one of Peru's few enlightened aristocrats. As Prime Minister from 1959 to 1961, he brought the country back from the brink of economic collapse with a hard-nosed policy of "austerity within the framework of a free economy." For the past 22 years, Beltran, now 75, has also used his sober, middle-of-the-road La Prensa in Lima to protest both social injustice from the far right and suppression of freedoms from the left. His targets have included the leftist military regime that came to power in 1968. Though Beltr...
That is a pity, for this last volume covers the tumultuous period beginning with De Gaulle's return to power in 1958; when he died, he had carried the narrative into 1963. In that time, De Gaulle brought his country from the brink of civil war to political and economic stability. Without putting a foot wrong, he ended the fratricidal crisis over whether Algeria should be granted independence. It was an extraordinary achievement, something only he could have done...
...radio, and in every crowd of listeners there is inevitably one to whom a casualty is known, perhaps an acquaintance, perhaps a relative or friend. But they listen primarily not for personal tragedies; rather it is as if they are awaiting the next war which perches precariously at the brink of some incident, behind one of the countless provocations, and retaliations which continue without end on three or tour fronts simultaneously...
Perhaps, having talked out his life to the brink of print, he has once more been overcome by a sudden affliction of shyness, and he trembles in the gusts of exposure that simply the announcement of the book has sent through his sanctuary. It must be very hard for an authentic mystery to go public, and the spectacle may merit some sympathy. For all his trophies, his scrapbooks, his power, his billions, Howard Hughes, says Clifford Irving -and the judgment has the ring of truth-"is a very vulnerable...
...this point, the film moves from left to right, as domestic sentiment takes over from hifalutin political ideas. Later episodes take Chaplin and his girlfriend into a department store at night, where the tramp blithely roller-skates blind-folded. On the brink of disaster, he is blissfully unaware of a stairwell until the minute he takes his blindfold off, at which point he cannot help but fall in. The movie contains several similar gems of poetic understanding of human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing...