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...radio, and in every crowd of listeners there is inevitably one to whom a casualty is known, perhaps an acquaintance, perhaps a relative or friend. But they listen primarily not for personal tragedies; rather it is as if they are awaiting the next war which perches precariously at the brink of some incident, behind one of the countless provocations, and retaliations which continue without end on three or tour fronts simultaneously...
Perhaps, having talked out his life to the brink of print, he has once more been overcome by a sudden affliction of shyness, and he trembles in the gusts of exposure that simply the announcement of the book has sent through his sanctuary. It must be very hard for an authentic mystery to go public, and the spectacle may merit some sympathy. For all his trophies, his scrapbooks, his power, his billions, Howard Hughes, says Clifford Irving -and the judgment has the ring of truth-"is a very vulnerable...
...this point, the film moves from left to right, as domestic sentiment takes over from hifalutin political ideas. Later episodes take Chaplin and his girlfriend into a department store at night, where the tramp blithely roller-skates blind-folded. On the brink of disaster, he is blissfully unaware of a stairwell until the minute he takes his blindfold off, at which point he cannot help but fall in. The movie contains several similar gems of poetic understanding of human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing...
...kindling, the cooling and the rekindling of the Quakers is the present theme of Dutch Novelist-Playwright Jan de Hartog. In this first of two novels in progress, he takes the history of the Religious Society of Friends from Cromwell's England, 1652, to Pennsylvania, 1755, and the brink of the French-Indian war. The Peaceable Kingdom fs clumsily written. Nevertheless De Hartog, a Friend himself, has managed to indicate the range of religious experience, from hot ecstasy to prim rule of procedure-and sometimes back again. De Hartog's four stages of religion go something like stages...
...confident that the United States right now is on the brink of exercising its power to do good in the world. Such good as never has been done in the history of civilization because we now can muster our moral force, our economic force and we, of course, have the military power to back up our words. Our aim is to build a structure of peace such as we could not dream of after World War II; we couldn't dream of this when Eisenhower was President. It wasn't the right time. It wasn't the right time when...