Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revealing any more of the plot would be unethical; but perhaps this preview will encourage you to see I'he Sleeping Car Murder,which is an intelligent and exciting first film by a 34-year-old French director named Costa Gavras. Using an ingenious mystery by Sebastien Japrisot, who resembles Simenon but is fonder than he of elaborate puzzles, Gavras wrote an adaptation that is both thoroughly cinematic and faithful to the spirit of the book...
...that issue the property was spotty but generally solid. Sam Abrams, a Weaton professor, specializes in disjuction and fails to connect student here, surrenders occasionally to the soft blandishments of consecutive words but does it very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always...
...within the military, browbeating reluctant politicians and trying to soften up Castello Branco. ARENA is now almost fully behind him, and a recent survey of the military gave him the support of 80% of the country's army officers. Castello Branco finally had no choice but to pronounce Costa e Silva an "acceptable" candidate. All that remains now is his nomination at ARENA'S May 26 convention, his resignation as War Minister by July 3 pn,d fheformal election itself in Congress...
Hard-Nosed. As yet, Costa e Silva has said almost nothing about the direction his government would take, except that "economic-financial policy must have continuity if it is to fulfill its objective." That seems to mean that he will keep on with the hard-nosed austerity program laid down by Economist Roberto Campos. Costa e Silva's government would probably be more "revolutionary"-tougher and less tolerant of political agitation. Possibly as a sign of things to come, seven more Brazilians were deprived of their political rights last week, bringing the total since the revolution...
According to its editors, Thomas O. Trobe '67 and Carl L. Proper '67, the magazine is the only regularly published, English language report on Latin American affairs. The Chronicle, which costa 25 cents a copy, is published by the Latin American Association, an undergraduate organization that invites specialists in Latin America to lecture at Harvard...