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...play offers no new insight and makes no clear point. It pushes nostalgia to the brink of extinction. Queen Mother Mary (Eileen Herlie) is a starchy matriarch with a cast-iron devotion to duty. Edward (George Grizzard) is a kind of superannuated adolescent with vague notions of modernizing monarchy. As for the Duke (Patrick Horgan) and Duchess (Ruth Hunt) of York, they caterwaul incessantly about not having had enough on-the-job training to assume the reigns of empire...
Only Prime Minister Gandhi herself seemed to be unaware of this. She devoted her speech to criticizing farmers for hoarding, middlemen for gouging, black-marketeers and those who patronize them. For the food shortages that have pushed millions to the brink of starvation and caused widespread riots and looting, she offered shallow explanations, blaming the weather rather than mismanagement by India's central and state governments. Perhaps it was not surprising that Blitz, a rambunctious left-wing weekly, began its Independence Day editorial with the question...
...tear it down." They are under little pressure to do so. After years of being ostracized, East Germany is currently enjoying international acceptance. It is about to become a member of the United Nations, and it has already received diplomatic recognition from 89 countries. The U.S. is on the brink of establishing relations. A State Department delegation will arrive in East Berlin shortly to discuss, among other things, the location of a U.S. embassy. One possible site (on land already owned by the U.S.): directly behind the Brandenburg Gate, abutting the Berlin Wall...
...subdued. In 1972 he attached himself to the McGovern campaign, but only halfheartedly. McGovern did not seem to appreciate a good joke much more than Nixon. When the President and some fat cats were about to pay a visit to John Connally's ranch, Tuck proposed sending a Brink's armored car to the scene followed by a Mexican laundry truck. But the McGovernites vetoed the suggestion...
...historian and scholar in Kissinger feels special pain. He has studied those interludes in the affairs of men that have changed civilization. He senses we are on the brink...