Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
...effects of stories in the magazine, and decided to pass on a few cases in point. ¶Two months ago, Science reported on findings that a major Brazilian river, the Rio Negro, had all the characteristics of a perfect insecticide because, during flooding, it sapped chemicals from neighboring vegetation. Brazil's Minister of Interior said his office had not known of the phenomenon; he encouraged wide publication of the TIME story in the Brazilian press...
Given the Latin American temperament, it is unlikely that this unsmiling advice will be taken. It even raises the possibility that only in Brazil would Toynbee's safety be assured, for he found Brazilian nationalism "ironic and lighthearted." But his point, though indelicately made, is clear enough. To a passionate one-worlder, the sight of nationalism in action is dreary at best. And as a champion of religion, Toynbee would replace the statues of the national liberators with "replicas of theChrist of the Andes and pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...
...NANCY MOORE Rosario Oeste, Brazil...