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...collar job, is no fragile Dedalus embarking upon a tragic bildungsroman; neither is he a dashing hero in a setting devoid of heroism. Domenico's passage into adulthood takes place without ceremony or bravado. He passes quietly, but not painlessly, self-consciously, but never cutely, into a world of hopeless vacuity. Throughout the movie Olmi shows him what he may become--a dulled commuter from lower middle-class suburbs, a paunchy clerk gazing through shop windows, an embittered office-worker yearning for a piddling promotion...
...Invisible" Ones. That area is basically one of a relatively few "haves," and millions of "have nots" whose mood ranges from hopeless to revolutionary. Average per capita income is a miserable $400 a year. Since 1961, seven constitutional governments have been toppled by military coups. Nearly all of Latin America-about 8,500,000 sq. mi. and 220 million people-is teeming with unrest. The "invisible" ones, as Colombian Writer Germán Arciniegas said of the masses, may be at a point where they will make themselves heard in "a consuming fire or a flood of light." And despite...
...Sagan's self-indulgent heroines. A survivor of three years in a German concentration camp in which she lost her husband and parents, she has a derelict's vision of the world as a place where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless. The secret of survival in such a world, she has learned, is to smother every flicker of feeling. The old man appeals to her at first because he seems to offer her comfort in exchange for a minimum emotional payment on her part...
...acre Connally family spread, the cactus had been routed, mesquite trees dragged out by chain, the land plowed deep, and a lush cover of coastal Bermuda grass planted. "Five years ago, there was nothing here, nothing at all," said Connally. "The land had been all but given up for hopeless. Now it will support up to ten times its former number of cattle, besides being good for cutting hay and for pulling up sprigs of grass to sell to other ranchers...
...occurrence for nations struggling with delicate trade balances. Growing wage demands in Europe, Latin America and Asia far exceeded gains in productivity, causing serious threats of a new round of inflation in France and Italy, a rise of 23% in Japan's cost of living, and of a hopeless 70% in Brazil...