Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of Brazil? Of the nation's 13 Pres idents since World War II, three have been overthrown by force, one committed suicide, two resigned, three have had their civil rights revoked, five served temporary terms of three days to three months, and the current officeholder, Marshal Humberto Castello Branco, cannot wait to get out. For all the disadvantages, however, not until this year has there ever been a shortage of candidates...
...political parties were melded into two-an official government party known as ARENA and an official opposition party called MODEBRAS. Naturally, ARENA dominated Congress, and so when Castello Branco decreed that the next President would be elected by Congress, the opposition finked out. That left the field to Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64, former War Minister, leader of the army's ultra-conservative "hard line," and by far its most powerful general. Nominated in May by ARENA, Costa e Silva became the only candidate for President...
...pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government. "An unforgettable night," proclaimed the president of the National Confederation of Industries. "A his toric moment," added the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture. "The moral attributes of Your Excellency, Senhor Marshal," said the president of the National Confederation of Industrial Workers, "make of Your Excellency the unquestioned interpreter of the aspirations of the workers, who jubilantly exalt the irreversible resolution of Your Excellency to bring peace to the Brazilian family...
...much of a story. An air force installation takes over" the English village in which Roy, the young narrator, grew up; it soon becomes clear that the air vice marshal in charge is scheming to take over the earth. Meanwhile the world that Roy knew is crumbling in other ways. He is told that the couple who raised him are not his parents. His marriage to a barmaid named Bess sours under the possibility that she may be his sister, as well as under her adulterous preference for the flight lieutenant from the aerodrome. The air vice marshal...
...clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal's ambition, a life whose very vagueness concealed a wealth of opportunity, whose uncertainty called for adventure, a life whose unwieldiness was the consequence of its immensity...