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Word: borgese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a standing joke among journalists that the world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eternity Is Procreation | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adler's List: | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Idea: a novel in which all of the characters have been struck mute. The only way they can communicate is through the pictures and symbols on a pack of tarot cards. That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov-a novelist who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Card Tricks | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

The academies voted overwhelmingly to select Guillen, Marichal said. Even Argentina, the birthplace of Jorge Luis Borges, the other major candidate for the prize, voted for Guillen.

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Jorge Guillen, Former Norton Lecturer, Receives Cervantes Prize for His Poetry | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloodless Coup | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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