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...excellent in Moon for the Misbegotten, are again assets to the production as the charming prevaricator Hector Hushabye and Ellie Dunn's mild-mannered, yet understanding father Mazzini. Really all the inhabitants of Heartbreak House--except the industrialist who may represent the type that is leading Europe over the brink of disaster--manage to make themselves, as Ellie's father describes them, "very charming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, humane, unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and everything that is delightful to thoughtful people." Yet as these ideal people in the final act enjoy the night air in the garden and idly...
Almost a year has passed since Henry Kissinger's dramatic visit to Peking, but surprise diplomacy still seems to be in vogue. The unexpected news that North and South Korea were at the brink of amity after 27 years of vituperation was nearly as stunning in its own way as last summer's sudden thaw in U.S.-Chinese relations...
...another line controlled by the N & W, the money-losing Delaware and Hudson. If it went into receivership, it would have plenty of company: of the nation's 68 major railroads, six are in bankruptcy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission officially lists 17 others as teetering on the brink-including the Delaware and Hudson...
Nonpolitical departments like science still operate fairly normally, but the turmoil has produced a shambles in the fields of economics, sociology, philosophy and political science. Said a Cologne newspaper: "There is not a university in the country that seems so near the brink of disaster...
...against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...