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With commencement day 24 hours away, indications are strong that the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and the physicist Kenneth G. Wilson '56 will receive honorary degrees this year.
"I'm not authorized to mention anything about him." Juan Marichal, Smith Professor of Fench and Spanish Languages and Literatures, said yesterday of Borges. "I think that someone has acted in an improper way because it should have remained silent," he added.
But just as important an influence was that of Latin American poets, such as Neruda, Huidobro, Gabriela, Mistral, and Octavio Paz. "Our (contemporary Latin American novelists') language is possible because the poets offered it. Poets like Neruda discovered local rhythms and the circular sense of time of our culture. And...
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 48, is a quiet, slightly built Argentine whose shy smile and modest appearance belie an iron resolve: he is a dedicated champion of Latin America's poor and oppressed, and, by proxy, of Argentina's 6,000 desaparecidos-"those who disappeared," most either...
In the central essay, "The Return of Eva Peron," he speaks to terrorists, to businessmen and government officials to find an acceptable history. But even Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's man of letters, fails him. Borges' writing is a series of intellectual games that strip away, rather than analyze, the...