Word: golconda
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...enjoyed your article on Forego in the April 13 issue very much, but I feel I should call attention to one serious inaccuracy. Whirlaway is far from being the only distinguished name in Forego's pedigree. Forli-Lady Golconda may not be a particularly fashionable pedigree, but it is certainly one of the finest in the country...
...Years, Brooks tells the story of that doomed decade in the market, and a fine moralistic tale it is. Brooks' research is not impeccable. Despite his reputation as a clarifier of financial complexities (Once in Golconda), following his prose requires a working knowledge of market terminology. Some of his stories are long digressions from the sweep of his history. Never mind. He is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers "high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination and belonging...
Other major countries show less organized involvement. Colombia, home of Rebel Priest Camilo Torres, martyred hero of the left, has virtually no radical Christian organization; the once active Golconda movement has all but disappeared for lack of leadership. Brazil's Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, is still an outspoken proponent of "liberation," and many of Brazil's priests and bishops, while quiet on ideology, are actively working for change. But the government has become so repressive that it now censors even church newspapers; no visible leftist priests' movement could hope to exist...
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...year-old Lowdermilk's, oldest of the nation's great secondhand bookstores, was a print fancier's Golconda. In a pre-paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators...