Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successors have not even given Brazil development. First, the erratic Jànio Quadros let Brazil's boom falter, then resigned in a fit of pique. Next came the leftist João Goulart, who only compounded the troubles until the military stepped in, grimly determined to sweep out all the old politicians...
More often, however, the crowd ignores his faults and cheers him for all it is worth. "The most interesting thing about El Cordobés' bullfights is the crowd," says AntÓnio DÍaz-Cañabate, one of Spain's most fastidious critics. "They don't care at all about bullfighting. They want to go mad in the physical presence of a fetish...
...contrary to democratic principles" or whose party is linked to foreign governments. Thus all Communists and Castroites are excluded. There is no room on the ballot for anyone whose political rights were suspended in the early days of the revolution, thereby blocking the comeback of former Presidents Jânio Quadros and Juscelino Kubitschek, whose voting privileges were lifted for ten years. Also excluded is any person who served as a Cabinet minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last year's revolution. Finally, the bill rules out anyone...
Before 1958, Lieut. General Humberto Delgado was an ornament of the regime of Premier António Salazar. He served for five years as a military .attache in Washington, and was Portugal's representative to NATO. But then Delgado made the mistake of campaigning seriously for the presidency in one of Salazar's mock elections. Defeated, Delgado was promptly fired from his job as director of civil aviation, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy until he got a guarantee of safe conduct to leave the country...
...constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees his wife, then Alexandra. The programmed gears carry Alexandra to António and back to Gonçalo. The wife meets...