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Born in Moscow in 1896, Jakobson was one of the lesders of the Moscow Linguistic Circle and speardheaded an avant-grade move ment in theory of literature...
...joyous chants from 10,000 supporters who had gathered at the soccer stadium in the industrial city of Valladolid for the campaign rally. As the candidate with the flashing smile and thick black hair took the stage, the crowd clapped and cheered its approval. "After 150 years of govern-ment by the right, we must try to put this country on the march," he declared, stabbing the air in a gesture of challenge. "And that can only be done by the Socialist Party...
Since its creation in 1968, the VES Depart- ment has required students to apply to an evaluation committee for admission...
...many Mexicans, the govern ment's drastic prescriptions seemed near ly as bad as the disease: the imposition of strict currency controls, an effective freeze on most dollar accounts, sharp price hikes and the second peso devalua tion in six months. Most was Silva Herzog's admission that Mexico was unable to meet current payments on its huge $80 billion foreign debt, among the highest in the Third World. The statement raised the specter of a possible default that would have a domino effect on the international banking system. No one was more concerned than U.S. bankers...
...Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play of shapes/ that search, researching over the perfect shape/ to stop the mo-ment-in-time and stamp it: This...