Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmth of the reception astounds Borges. He believes the audience is making some terrible mistake. He tells himself he must have tricked them, and hopes they won't find it out soon. But he's willing to enjoy the applause (writers receive no such recognition in Argentina, he explains), and turned around three times on the way off the stage to respond with grateful abbreviated bows. He tells himself that these people have come to see what a blind foreign poet is like. Borges won't admit (and won't believe) that he's one of the great figures...
WITH deep-rooted memories of Argentina under Peron (who tried to humiliate Borges--then a librarian--by making him a provincial poultry inspector) Borges has a great love for the United States. "After all," he recalls, "it came to me in the best way, through literature--Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Melville. . . . What I find very admirable is that people here have a keen sense of right and wrong...
...here," Onganía said, "is not an evaluation of accomplishment." With that, he lashed out at a whole host of governmental demons: inefficiency, featherbedding, lack of cooperation and coordination, an absence of planning and all-around administrative malaise. "The functioning of our state is chaotic," he said. "Argentina, a nation whose great destiny no one doubts because of its riches, lies in the shadows of neglect." The officials were shocked by the stern lecture...
Restlessness & Frustration. Almost two years after seizing power, ex-army general Ongania, 53, thus recognized the sad condition into which Argentina has fallen-and moved to stop the decline. Thirty years ago, his country was ranked among the world's developed nations; today, the World Bank classifies it as underdeveloped. The economy is only inching along, and unemployment is up to 8%. The state-owned railroads are losing $1,000,000 a day. To pay its bills and meet its huge deficits, the government is constantly printing more money and, in turn, inflating an already bloated cost of living...
...growing problems have created a new restlessness among Argentina's people. Not even the country's few bargains-3? subway rides, 1½ pay phones, 300-per-lb. beefsteak-have been able to ease the feelings of frustration and disquiet. The middle class grumbles constantly about soaring prices, which seem to hit it hardest. The lower classes are slightly better off, mainly because Onganía, who started out as a union buster, has turned kindly toward the unions and consults with them regularly in an effort to win some kind of popular support. "Ongan...