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Belaúnde's fall once again raised the question of whether democracy can flourish in Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres...
...when Labor is out of power and both party and unions need one another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist government to do all it would like for the workingman. The result is an inevitable clash, and it has seldom been more acrimonious than it is today...
...Burtons, Zeffirelli dazzles the eye with a virtuoso use of color. His camera is a Renaissance palette. Courtiers stride by in the muted gold and crimsons of Piero della Francesca; cobblestones and horsemen diminish into the serene infinities of Uccello. Visually, Shakespeare has never been better realized-and seldom has he had so sensitive a collaborator...
...sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible businessman engages in fraud or embezzlement, but when he does it is apparent to the poor that his transgression, however grandiose, rarely draws a penalty comparable in economic terms to that meted out to the petty thief. To which the responsible businessman is apt to reply that...
...Democrats, Billy has seldom seen Hubert Humphrey since their first unlikely meeting in 1945 when "we were both swimming nude at the Y.M.C.A. in Minneapolis." Humphrey was running for mayor and, Graham recalls, joked that "I want you to vote for me some day." It may not be this year. "I haven't even told my wife," says Billy. "I'm sure she suspects whom I'd vote for, but I haven't told...