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...Argentina's Minister of Education, Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich has a habit of dropping into classrooms around the country to deliver homespun lectures on the greatness of his boss, President Juan Perón. Last week, in a broadcast aimed at all the nation's schools, Ivanissevich outdid himself...
Every morning, when Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich comes to work, he goes through a little ceremony. First he bows deeply before the portraits of President Peron and la Señora. Then, flinging open the French windows, he fills his lungs with 100% Argentine air. Finally he shouts ecstatically: "Good morning, my Fatherland...
Thus fortified, he proceeds to his job of setting Argentina's cultural tone. Minister Ivanissevich (a surgeon by profession, a guitarist and poet by avocation) also heads a secretariat of culture which has inquired in the past year into such matters as anti-religious sentiment in comic strips, the faulty patriotism of newsreels, and the alleged immorality of lyrics to certain popular tangos. Last week Oscar got around...
...clinch his point, Poet Ivanissevich concluded with one of his own compositions...
...months, Buenos Aires intellectuals have been hearing rumors of-and holding heated arguments over-a new brain wave of the Perón government: a "draft law of the intellectual worker." Although the bill was submitted to Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich last September, few of the debaters knew exactly what they were arguing about; the bill's provisions have never been officially disclosed...