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...tutor in sociology I had little to offer besides a framework of generalizations and some new vocabularly. I could talk about the difficulties of changing traditional beliefs, but the students could talk about trying to run an anti-bilharsia campaign. I could talk about urbanization, but the students could talk about what it is like to move into the city and live in the same house with people from different tribes and religions...
Sudden Surprise. Almost since the revolution, Costa e Silva has been content to act as the buffer between two bitterly opposed government factions-the so-called "soft-liners," including Castello Branco, who want to operate within a constitutional framework, and the hard liners who demand more aggressive "revolutionary government." Finally, in a showdown last October, the hard liners forced Castello Branco to abolish Brazil's 13 political parties, pave the way for a government party called ARENA, and order indirect presidential elections this fall by Congress rather than by direct popular elections. Since ARENA controls 284 of Congress...
...Senate may retain its quill pens and snuffboxes as hallmarks of tradition, a whole world of florid political oratory, provincialism and paternalism has given way to a youthful, hard, professional approach. Still, such major innovations as the New Deal were possible only because they could take place within the framework of basic American tradition. Some of the most drastic recent changes in American life-the emergence of unprecedented strong federal authority, the growth of what is in effect a welfare state, the election of a Roman Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly...
...device seriously or comically--as in Batman when a BLAM sign is flashed--he tries to do both at once and winds up with something that is laughable. There is, for example, an actor who "portrays" a train and at least four times walks across the stage carrying a framework that is suggestive of a train. Not to subtle...
...metropolitan complex is the epicenter and embodiment of American life. In its Promethean ambit of inter ests, its cultural diversity and kinetic verve, the city's heart sets the pace for the rest of the nation, and indeed much of the world. It is an unrivaled func tional framework for finance and busi ness, a rich lode of pleasure, a superb showcase for art, theater, music, fashion. At the same time, the "oceanic amplitude of these great cities," as Walt Whitman rhapsodized in 1870, has cast up a titanic tide of troubles...