Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he became President, Ford has erred on the side of caution -or so it appears in hindsight. Of course, he deserves much credit for bringing down inflation. But after the economic summits that he convened in the autumn of 1974, he ignored all the warnings of recession and proposed an unwisely tight fiscal policy, with income tax surcharges for individuals and companies. By December the economy had plunged, and in January 1975 Ford had to admit his error by proposing a tax cut of $16 billion. In fact, that was too modest. Congress increased it to more than...
...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH...
These are the first words of The Autumn of the Patriarch, and what a way to begin a novel: the theme is artfully insinuated, an atmosphere instantly evoked like a puff of stage smoke, and all conveyed in language that generates a charge of expectancy. Admirers of Colombian Novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have come to expect such virtuosity. His One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) is a flat-out masterpiece...
...Autumn of the Patriarch is about despotism, not only as political fact but as a paranoid state of mind. The dictator, known as "the general," has ruled for 100 years. He begins as a popular, benevolent figure. As his power overripens and corrupts, he sells his country's coastal waters, murders his enemies and finally withdraws to his palace to live in regal squalor with his concubines. He still keeps up with public sentiment, however -by reading the graffiti on the walls of his servants' outhouses...
...case in most of his other novels, Garcia Márquez offers very lit tle chronological plotting. The Autumn of the Patriarch actually begins at the end of the general's life and works back ward and laterally through a national history that somewhat resembles the blur of civil wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex...