Word: horacio
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...going to catch Julio Cortázar making things too clear. "Sometimes I am convinced," muses one character, "that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog." When this character, a Uruguayan woman called La Maga, goes to bed with Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine, they make love in "Gliglish": "Right away she tordled her hurgales, allowing him gently to bring up his orfelunes...
...West and Brazil's Northeast were much alike. Author Amado, 52, is himself a nordestino, and here he again celebrates his brawling frontier city of Ilhéus and its quick-witted, hard-driving people. His big, lusty novel turns on the long land war between Colonel Horacio da Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every...
Amado reads his characters in depth. There is no facile division into good guys and bad guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who has arranged the killing of many men, still agonizes over each decision-in fact, his soul searching destroys the efficiency of his best gunman, Negro Damião. As in U.S. westerns, the land is the real hero, breeding men as luxuriant, lavish and cruel as itself. Presumably spurred...
...their vast enterprises with equal measures of fierce family loyalty, business acumen, political sagacity and social awareness. They lived modestly, had their children educated in Europe, invested their earnings in new plants and won political favor by acquiring a reputation for public service. A grandson of an original Klabin, Horacio Lafer, 63, who is an active partner in the Klabin business enterprises today, has served as Brazil's Foreign Minister and Finance Minister, and amazed everyone in 1951 by balancing Brazil's budget...
...Horacio Godoy, a member of the faculty of law at the University of La Plata, was the only panelist to question seriously the value of nationalism. He admitted that two nationalistic forces are currently at work in Latin America, "National Marxism and the orthodox social Christian aims," but he stressed that neither has much chance of unifying the continent...