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...Brink of Change. The homage to Franco was genuine enough. He has, after all, given Spain one of the longest periods of peace in its history and has presided over its most prosperous decade. As for Spain's autocratic political system, the Caudillo last year assured his subjects in a pseudonymous newspaper article that "our peculiarity is no defect," and few of his countrymen seem to disagree. In telling contrast to the cheering crowd in the Plaza de Oriente, slightly more than half the eligible voters turned out for last week's election to the Cortes, or parliament...
...approaching what could be the brink of catastrophe, we should rely on what we know how to do, lower the birth rate, while we also work on the bigger problems like reorganizing the world...
...Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, once characterized as "the most impossible in the world." In an ordinary year, the selection of a new Secretary-General would overshadow most other matters on the agenda of the General Assembly. Ten years ago, in fact, that very issue brought the U.N. to the brink of a breakup when the Soviet Union tried to create an unwieldy three-man directorate in order to keep the post from falling into the hands of another activist in the mold of the late Dag Hammarskjold...
...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...