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...figures of the past, obscured by the magnitude of their own reputations, had all been friends of Ungaretti's, and celebrants of his art. Collected in Il Tacciuno del Vecchio (The Notebook of an Old Man) is the homage of a generation: letters, essays, a poem by the Mexican Octavio Oaz and one by Henri Thuile...
...Octavio Demasiado, the President of Latifundia, is an odd political animal-part pure schemer, part selfless leader. An ex-football hero and the son of a prostitute, he is as wily and emotional in his diplomatic dealings as a wildcat forced to play parlor games. Almost his opposite in personality and background is Carl Aspinwall, the U.S. Ambassador to Latifundia. Harvard-educated scion of an aristocratic New England family, Aspinwall has tried to build a diplomatic career on plain dealing, only to find his word and position repeatedly betrayed by shifts in policy...
...commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed? In a scene involving some of the sickest psychology since Sade, she invites...
...brilliant Mexican poet, essayist, playwright and diplomat Octavio Paz has shown how his country's revolution and governmental intervention in economic life led to eventual diversified development. And as British Economist Dudley Seers et al, have put it in Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution: "Almost any degree of disorganization would have been preferable to the complete failure in Cuba in earlier years to mobilize the factors of production...
...playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline or any notion of order; arbitrary power, the will without reins and without a set course...