Word: bahian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for his expansive mood is that he is really writing a love letter to Bahia. Formerly an earnest Communist, he turned out several stark novels (sample title: Sweat). Gabriela marked an abrupt mellowing in Amado's outlook. Now he romanticizes his Bahians into virile lovers, darkly sensual morenas, whores and neighbors, all larger than life. According to rumor, Dona Flor's friends are not the Bahian poor, but Amado's own circle of artists and intellectuals, whom he has costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor...
...nepotism, enforced fair payment of taxes, paved highways. He has opened fish and chicken hatcheries, fattened cattle herds through inoculation, distributed 2,300,000 rubber seedlings this year alone. Magalhaes is starting a $400 million four-year-plan for economic development. The Governor also got Petrobras to appoint a Bahian director and to negotiate an increase in the royalty rates...