Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil's Congress is expected to pass the bill after considerable debate-and possibly some softening amendments. To no one's surprise, Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara (Rio) Governor who has been attacking the government for just about everything (TIME, June 11), denounced the bill as "bad, narrow, hypocritical, juridically wrong, politically wrong, morally wrong-another error of the revolution." Equally unhappy is the tight little group of army officers who call themselves the linha dura (the hard line) and are opposed to any elections. One of their leaders, Colonel Osnelli Martinelli, 43, publicly denounced Castello Branco...
...most subtle and persistent nemesis of Charles de Gaulle's narrow, nationalist design for a Europe des patries are the Eurocrats-the quiet men in Brussels dedicated to creating a truly supranational political Europe atop the already thriving economic union of the Common Market Six. Ever since De Gaulle vetoed British entry into the Common Market in 1963, the Eurocrats have patiently worked to yoke French economic demands to the larger purposes of Europe, and more often than not have succeeded. Last week, as the ministers of the Six assembled in Brussels, E.E.C. President Walter Hallstein and his technicians...
...familiar a spiritual catchphrase as Kierkegaard's "leap of faith," or Tillich's "ultimate concern." Deeply rooted in tradition, Buber spoke with an unmistakably contemporary voice. His stress on authentic human relations is a timely warning for a depersonalized world. His vision of man living on "a narrow ridge" of "holy insecurity" rings true for many concerned about the shadow of holocaust. But like many another phrasemaking prophet, suggests Dr. Ernst Simon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Buber may well pay for the triumph of a vivid concept with anonymity and be forgotten as a man while...
...further glamorize a morbid theme, Director William Wyler daubs it somewhat irrelevantly in full color. Yet his sure professionalism makes every important scene insidiously effective. The sense of stifling confinement is established at the outset when Clegg, in a van, stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English...
...catharsis can only come from such a closely-knit sequence of highly charged events compressed into a narrow time span. If those events all work together to virtually place the viewer inside the main character's skin, the film attains tragic proportions; if they do not, it degenerates into sensationalism. In The Pawnbroker the backdrop of the city creates a matrix which binds up the different devices and makes them effective. The pawnbroker's cage or the ugly apartment houses standing for the community achieve a near-symbolism, so that the viewer stops thinking in terms of reality and enters...