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...electoral success came nine years to the day after the overthrow of a dictatorship that Scares had opposed for most of his adult life. But in Portugal, winning elections is no cause for rejoicing. The Socialist Party, Scares glumly declared, "holds the hopes of millions of Portuguese without feeling triumphant...
...Triumphant, no. Beleaguered, almost certainly. Scares and the Socialists have inherited an economy in crisis ($13 billion in foreign debt, 20% inflation, bankrupt state industries, unemployment as high as 15%) and a political system on the verge of collapse. Scares' new government-if he can form one-will be Portugal's 15th since the 1974 revolution. Despite major gains in the cities, the Socialists captured just over 36% of last week's vote, giving them perhaps 101 seats in the 250-member parliament. Scares has ruled out a minority government, and he refuses to cooperate with Portugal...
...naughty sex farces. Ambitious for more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair), and made some of her best movies, including Sadie Thompson (1928). Her career then faded, until her triumphant 1950 comeback as Sunset Boulevard's aging actress Norma Desmond. "You used to be big," the silent-screen star is told. "I am big," intones Swanson unforgettably. "It's the pictures that got small." Married six times, enthusiastic about health foods and natural cosmetics, maker and spender...
...exemplar of the American democrat, the self-reliant nobleman of nature who trailblazes into a wilderness of the spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes, Hawkeye occasionally looked as if he were campaigning for canonization. But he could still bend, and come near breaking, whether...
According to Dale, Chesterton published 78 books. Not all are fine or triumphant, and far more than half are forgotten. But that is no reason for regret. As Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist and pop novelist, comments, "In Books in Print I found nine volumes of H.G. Wells and eleven volumes of G.B. Shaw ... for Chesterton the list goes up to more than thirty. With thirty volumes listed, who needs a 'revival'?" If one ever becomes necessary, The Outline of Sanity is the place to begin...