Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "Report from Cuba" includes summer-1967 footage of speeches by Castro, a meeting of the radical Organization of Latin American States, nightclubbing in Havana, and a carnival in Santiago, birthplace of the Revolution...
Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
...Swedish Academy frequently chooses in order to honor the giants of literature in the twilight of their careers. Asturias rep resents the other extreme-the choice of a worthy writer who might otherwise go largely unnoticed. Asturias feels he was picked also because he embodies a new irend in Latin American literature. "We have long had a tendency," he said last week, "of avoiding our problems, submerging them in romanticism and folklore. With me, the academy has selected the other tendency-that of involvement, confrontation and commitment...
Given the Latin American temperament, it is unlikely that this unsmiling advice will be taken. It even raises the possibility that only in Brazil would Toynbee's safety be assured, for he found Brazilian nationalism "ironic and lighthearted." But his point, though indelicately made, is clear enough. To a passionate one-worlder, the sight of nationalism in action is dreary at best. And as a champion of religion, Toynbee would replace the statues of the national liberators with "replicas of theChrist of the Andes and pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...object that the simple label of nationalist does not characterize Bolivar, whose efforts to create a community of independent countries preceded by more than a century the formation of today's Organization of American States. Toynbee himself hedges on his theory. Suppose, he suggests, peaceful "integration" of all Latin American countries were to come about. Would it be followed "by a more vicious regional super-nationalism?" For Toynbee, who takes the practiced historian's long view, Latin America may not reach a state of political grace in any event: "The sequel to the 19th century unification of Germany...