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This small, quick-witted novel about a Southern black girl's misadventures in Chicago is a tricky mixture of down-home storytelling and faculty-lounge chitchat. The storytelling is rich. The chitchat, consisting of philosophical jar gon in several languages, is rather brittle. The heroine, a rural Candide named Faith Cross, is told by her dying mother to find life's Good Thing. She seeks guidance from a swamp witch, a withered and warty old necromancer with one green and one yellow...
...question of how to have liberty without license. "Debauchery is a pig's breakfast," one anguished citizen wrote the Lisbon weekly Expresso. There have even been charges that the CIA is sponsoring the new pornography to sap the revolution of its energies. Recently, Premier Vasco Gonçalves on nationwide television admonished his people to fight "pseudo-leftists and anarchists instead of going to see the pornography that is around everywhere...
...sheer coincidence, Gonçalves appeared on the air an hour after a TV broadcast of highlights from Autos Sacramentais that included shots of full frontal nudity. Since TV is government controlled, that in itself was a fairly strong indication that the wave of pornography is not about to subside in the near future. One reason is that the military junta-and the leftist unions, which heavily restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like...
There are clear and substantive differences between the democratic-leftist politics of Premier Gonçalves and Spínola's more conservative stance. Spínola worried that the junta's policy of allowing all political parties to organize freely would permit the Communists to acquire too much power before the election. He also opposed granting outright independence to the African territories, favoring instead a referendum that would let them unite with Portugal if they chose. In recent weeks, he announced that he was taking the settlement of oil-rich Angola into his own hands...
Foreign observers believe that the new team of Costa Gomes and Gonçalves will be a workable one. A career officer, Costa Gomes earned his stars in the African theater where, like Spínola, he came to oppose Portugal's colonial wars. When Spínola brought out his controversial book criticizing Portuguese colonial policy last February, Costa Gomes, who was then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Caetano regime, supported his deputy; both were ousted from their posts. His following in the military is said to be as large and as loyal...