Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indians, Lake Tahoe meant "Big Water," a laconic understatement even for an Indian. Twenty-two miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade...
Question: What do a child-guidance counselor, a jazz pianist, a BBC newscaster, a Peruvian living in Paris, a 26-year-old beauty from North Carolina and a 63-year-old real estate millionaire from Manhattan have in common? Answer: All are aspiring authors who have swelled one of the longest and strongest lists of first novels ever published in a single season...
...first novels from abroad, the explorations are cautious but skillful. The Time of the Hero (Grove Press) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 28, a Paris-based Peruvian, is a social satire so harrowingly powerful that 1,000 copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military academy, which he attended, as a metaphor of his homeland, and in reciting what he sees as the horrors of life at school suggests what he thinks of life in Peru. More sophisticated is The Opoponax (Simon & Schuster) by France's lissome Monique Wittig, 31. A disciple of Alain Robbe-Grillet...
Priest's Duty. Indeed he is. A Maryknoll missionary sent to Peru in 1950, Denver-born Father Dan is the founder and treasurer (he turned the presidency over to a Peruvian last year) of the 535-branch Credit Union League, which, with assets of $23 million, is the largest such organization in Latin America. He is president of El Pueblo (assets $8,650,000), Peru's second biggest savings and loan association, and executive vice president of the International Union of Building Societies and Savings and Loan Associations. To thousands of Peruvian peasants, he is simply "Father...
Worldly Concerns. Having scotched the Peruvian bankers' old complaint that the peasant could not be induced to save, Father Dan in 1961 set up a nonprofit savings and loan association to finance desperately needed low-cost housing. U.S. savings and loan men provided technical assistance. So far, Father Dan's El Pueblo association has loaned $11.9 million to build 3,613 houses in the Lima area...