Word: eca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAIAS, by Eca de Queiroz. A minor language is a cloak of invisibility for the man who writes in it. The greatness of Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900), for example, has been almost completely concealed from the English-reading world by the mere fact that he wrote in Portuguese. Happily, the cloak is now removed by this handsome translation of a massive satire that anatomized Portugal's pathetic aristocracy and stands today, against any standards, as a major 19th century novel...
...then chief administrative officer of NRA; 1940-41, executive in the Office of Production Management; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving ECA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security; 1955-58, Governor of New York; 1961, Ambassador-at-Large; 1961-63, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, led the U.S. delegation to the Laos truce talks in Geneva; 1963-, Under Secretary...
...Father Amaro, by Eca de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s...
...extraction. He is familiar with the growing problems of air traffic control that plague his agency. He was vice chairman of the President's 1955-57 Aviation-Facilities Study Group, which warned that fast-moving jets would soon saturate U.S. airways. Experienced both in Government service (Defense Department, ECA, NATO) and private industry (Servomechanisms, Inc.), "Jeeb" Halaby made it clear that he intends to exercise the same firm control over FAA that characterized Quesada's service. In all efforts to minimize the perils of U.S. airspace, said Halaby, he would deal directly with President Jack Kennedy...
...ideas, notably the theory that only pump-priming could make the economy grow. During World War II, Brookings went into everything from manpower allocation to postwar reconversion. In 1947, when Congress scrapped on foreign aid proposals, Brookings settled the fight with a plan that became the basic charter of ECA...