Word: atl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haunting tale called The Circular Valley, Bowles portrays an Atlájala, an anima or genius loci that can inhabit the bodies of all creatures. Local Indians know enough to stay away, but over the centuries monks come and, then, robbers and soldiers; the Atlájala is fascinated at the complexities he finds when he looks out through the eyes of men. Finally, a man and woman unhappily in love enter the valley, and the spirit enters him. It finds "a world more suffocating and painful than the Atlájala had thought possible." Within the woman, though, "each...
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...case industries like textile mills and electronics may be allowed to go under. Further import controls may be imposed, accompanied by a large devaluation of the escudo. "This country has to learn to work again," says Raul de Almeida Capela, a director of the Banco Portuguès do Atlántico. After the two-year political free-for-all, that may not be an easy task...