Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zaitsev of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences has not only proposed the theory that Christ was a cosmonaut but also that the star of Bethlehem was his rocket A being from a higher civilization ("My Kingdom is not of this world"), Christ came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death of crucifixion, and "ascended into heaven" after promising to come back. The idea of Christ as a cosmonaut did not bother Izvestia, but Christ as a democrat...
Fortunately, her desolate widowhood proves brief. Her second husband is Dr. Teodoro, a hard-working druggist and part-time bassoonist. A man moderate in everything, he makes love to his wife on Wednesdays and Saturdays-with an optional encore on Wednesday. She thinks she is content, until she enters her bedroom and finds Vadinho stretched out naked. The next morning he parades unclad about her cooking class-invisible except to Dona Flor but capable of exerting physical pressure on the breasts of an astonished student. Mostly he can be found in her bed, stating with humorous logic his legitimate posthumous...
...course, Vadinho could not make his way back from the blue except in a land as saturated with voodoo and ghostly candomblé rituals as Bahia. "God is fat," he confides to Dona Flor. He came back, he adds, because, despite her love for Dr. Teodoro, she called him. She cannot deny it, nor can she bring herself to send him packing back to his corpulent deity...
...reason for his expansive mood is that he is really writing a love letter to Bahia. Formerly an earnest Communist, he turned out several stark novels (sample title: Sweat). Gabriela marked an abrupt mellowing in Amado's outlook. Now he romanticizes his Bahians into virile lovers, darkly sensual morenas, whores and neighbors, all larger than life. According to rumor, Dona Flor's friends are not the Bahian poor, but Amado's own circle of artists and intellectuals, whom he has costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor...
...clever children who wrote its obituary? As these collections again attest, the cleverest child of all was George Bernard Shaw, who could invent a new name for God and tackle anything and anyone, even though he could never learn to eat and drink or make love like other men, occasionally shut up, or even master the bicycle...