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...repelled by the events of the past several months. It was in this mood that they voted, and their votes were as much against the pro-Peking direction of the Japanese Socialist Party as they were for the conservatism of Sato. Japan feels that it is staring over the brink of madness, and it does not like what it sees...
...argument that the bombing policy is a necessary psychological booster to the Saigon government and military forces is now outdated. Things have changed since February, 1965, when the bombing began on a regular basis and the Saigon government was on the brink of total collapse. The Viet Cong are no longer in a position to take Saigon, and the Ky government is now far more stable than its predecessors...
...Brink. Gunther left South America with the conviction that it is "on the brink of revolution." Maybe- but it has been on the brink for quite a while. In all, he spent only six months touring an area twice the size of the U.S., and his book, like all his other Insides, can hardly be expected to probe as deeply as the title suggests. But for all that, Inside South America is a valuable introduction to a continent that deserves more attention and more understanding than it usually gets...
...psychoanalytic post-mortem conducted on a U.S. President by two men who were admittedly prejudiced against their subject, and based on second-or third-hand information. Together, they framed a savage posthumous assault that depicts Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a Messianic but effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud puts psychoanalysis in the category of myth and poetry rather than that of scientific examination...
...cavities, ducts and glands of his body-Ruby accused them of injecting him with the disease. Almost from the moment of his arrival at the hospital on Dec. 9, Ruby's case was considered hopeless-and he knew it. Yet he seemed calmer and more lucid at the brink of death than he had for months-possibly because he had a window to see outdoors and was allowed to sleep in the dark...