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...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...
...drought continues. Gerald Hillman sets up a psychotic counterpart between the colloquial jabberings of an Italian family and the stilted quarrel of a couple who live upstairs. All this either occurs in or comments on the passive consciousness of Willy, the title character, who has been nudged over some brink by the death of a woman named Anita. "Reality is reality, it's essential," says Mr. White, one of the upstairs wranglers. But Willy's reality rushes chaotically into his mind, scrambled and unpunctuated, hinting at a story line that never fully materializes. Hillman's attempted humor does not click...
Four years after the Alianza set out to help 200 million Latin Americans make progress, there were still half a dozen countries teetering on the brink of political and economic chaos. But it is now clear that three tiny, historically tortured countries can be taken off the crisis list...
...astounding as the one he unjustly accuses SDS of When has war ever solved international conflict? For that matter, can violence ever solve any conflict? All that violence can possibly do is suppress conflict, only to have it reappear in a new but heightened form. Our sitting on the brink today should testify that immoral means never lead to moral ends. All the wars of the past have not delivered a safer world; violence or the threat of violence now and in the future will not lead to peace. The only solution is to renounce completely all immoral means. Only...
After 50 years of cradle-to-grave welfare statism, little Uruguay is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. The country is rich in wheat and beef but hardly rich enough to afford such goodies as 100% pensions at age 55, a 30-hour work week, and 44 days of paid vacation each year for many workers. And so in the past five years the peso has skidded from 9? to 1.6? on the free market (the official rate has been abandoned altogether). Thus far this year, inflation has soared 45% while the foreign debt has grown to a staggering...