Word: descent
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Reporting the story from Brazil was the assignment of George de Carvalho, 40, an American of Portuguese descent who has reported on the Brazilian people for three years as chief of TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau. De Carvalho and a staff of a dozen full-time and part-time correspondents ranged wide over the vast expanses of Brazil, conducted 150 interviews from the chief of the President's Cabinet to his schoolteachers. Following the President around Brazil, De Carvalho was on hand in the town of Florianópolis one morning at 6:30 when Quadros emerged...
Fantastic though it seems, Author Yashar Kemal, 39, has lived much of his novel. Village-born, of Kurdish descent, Kemal was five years old when his father was murdered by an enemy while kneeling beside his son in the mosque. The experience left Kemal with a stammer, which he cured by chanting the traditional songs of Turkish troubadours. This folk poetry glows in his description of the bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also...
...claims remote descent from Ireland's famed Gunning sisters, Maria and Eliza beth, who went to London 200 years ago and made some pretty fair catches themselves: Maria hooked the Earl of Coventry; Elizabeth got the Duke of Hamilton and later the Duke of Argyll...
Writer's Lot. There is no chronology to Hear Us, and some of these episodes are merely hinted at. One piece, The Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded...
Distinguished Descent. Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski de Rola in Paris on Feb. 29, 1908. Klossowski is a name that goes back for centuries in the Polish nobility, but he is also descended from the Gordons of Scotland, the most notable of whom was Lord Byron. His father was a noted critic whose house was always full of artists, writers, musicians, poets, psychologists and philosophers. For young Balthasar, the talk in the salon was an education in itself...