Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the 36-year rule of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar ended last year, the old man is not yet aware of it. Still immobilized after a stroke and a coma 13 months ago, Salazar calls Cabinet meetings, and his old ministers faithfully attend-even though some of them are no longer in the Cabinet. No one has found the courage to tell the 80-year-old dictator that he has been replaced...
Portugal has eagerly waited for the first major policy statement by Premier Marcello Caetano. He took over as the country's head of government 21 months ago, after a stroke crippled António de Oliveira Salazar and ended the old dictator's 36 years of repressive rule. Portugal's democrats and intellectuals hoped that Caetano would announce the liberalizing reforms that he had promised in his inaugural address...
...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
...nearly 40 years, António de Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood...
...inevitable. Onetime Dictator (1930-45) and President (1951-54) Getulio Vargas cried: "We are marching toward a new future different from all we know." "We are doomed to greatness,"' lamented President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61). "This is the land of Canaan, unlimited and fecund," said President Jánio Quadros, who only held office for seven months in 1961 and who also rashly declared: "In five years Brazil will be a great power." Everytime they strike up their national anthem, Brazilians join in a chorus of self-hypnotic confidence in the future...