Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles within the nation's most influential newspaper...
...appears to me that Ted Kennedy has graduated from being the youngest Senator in the nation to the oldest juvenile delinquent in the nation...
...Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Kennedy-Kopechne tragedy was the spectacle of some of the nation's in tellectual and political leaders scurrying to Hyannisport to give sympathy and counsel to Ted Kennedy. A young woman's life was carelessly lost, but apparently more important was the struggle to save a rather shaky political future...
...suggests, he could not resolve in himself the conflict he hoped to portray in Boris? The slim hope remains that a completed variation of the manuscript may yet be found. The Jewess has never been published in Russia, and it is not difficult to see why. In a nation where anti-Semitism and the assimilation of minorities are sensitive issues, this tale is bound to cause embarrassment. Babel's name may have been rehabilitated, but some of his work remains incorrigible...
Such is the slight story of Tropici, a film about modern-day Brazil made by an Italian, Gianni Amico, for Italian television. But the content of Tropici is primarily political: the effects of foreign exploitation on a Third World nation. Amico has correctly realized that traditional narrative, no matter how portentous, is inadequate for describing a social reality that lies beneath surface story lines. Therefore he has interweaved his narrative with a conventional documentary which attempts to set Miguel's story in context, to explain in party why Miguel is unskilled, why a country so rich in resources...