Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that both Democrats and Republicans have proved that Keynesianism is a failure, it's time to try laissez-faire capitalism. Find out what capitalism is; then you won't permit this endless teetering on the brink of disaster...
...ever did lead back to the circuit of his old academic life. The long, lonely hours in trenches and on Balkan mountaintops gave him time to think, and out of it emerged The Star of Redemption. In it everything came together: his disillusionment with Hegelian idealism, travels to the brink of Christianity, his profoundly mystical embrace of Judaism...
...among his better ones. An intimate psychological drama about a love affair and an ensuing domestic crisis, The Touch is reminiscent of those sober and slightly dreary "women's dramas" that Bergman made back in the mid-'5'0s, films like A Lesson in Love or Brink of Life. The plot is narrowly, intensely focused on a housewife named Karin (Bibi Andersson), who is approaching middle age and who, after 15 years of marriage, yields to her first extramarital affair. Hers is a loving, even a model marriage, which her affair inevitably endangers. And her choice...
...taken too much mescaline too soon and, as he watched Mick Jagger prance around the stage at Boston Garden, he thought he was either seeing God or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There was a moment at the brink of the abyss, but then he decided in favor of God and pulled himself together. Like nearly everyone else...
...fame as a doped version of Fort Lauderdale, complete with acidheads, amphetamine freaks, pot lovers and a sizable sprinkling of good old American paranoids. Until late 1967, some credulous observers believed that American youth, led ever onward by psychedelic visions from the best LSD ever produced, was on the brink of making some sort of cultural breakthrough. In truth, however, the Haight had by that time become a transcendental sewer...