Word: quevedo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider first the second half of the book, including the version of Juvenal, three Horatian odes, the Brunetto Latini canto from Dante (Inferno XV),and four sonnets by the sixteenth century Spanish poets Gongora and Quevedo. I say versions because I do not think these poems belong in the class which Lowell described as imitations in the preface to his 1961 volume. There he concentrated on the transmission of tone, quoting Boris Pasternak's remark about the usual translator's sacrifice of tone to literal meaning. He then cautioned us to read Imitations as a book of original poems, with...
Eunuchs for God. Convinced that his own experience had led him to a useful self-understanding of his own spiritual doubts and fears, Lemercier asked the members of his community if they would volunteer for a series of twice-weekly group-therapy sessions. To work with Dr. Quevedo, Lemercier deliberately selected a woman psychiatrist, Argentinian Frida Zmud, so that the monks would have to confront the problems of sexuality. For some, sex was indeed a problem, and many of those who left St. Mary's have since married. But Lemercier believes that the ones who stayed came...
...October 1960, according to his Dialogues, he had a vision of lightning flashes. Feelings of fear and joy swept over him; tearfully he cried out, "My God, why don't you speak to me?" Suspecting that he was going insane, he turned for help to Mexican Psychoanalyst Gustao Quevedo...
...most straightforward summation of all came from Ecuador's Finance Minister Alberto Quevedo. Said he: "More and more, we Latins are prepared to give in to demands for social justice. A peaceful revolution like the one propounded by the Alliance means that we may lose a good share of our privileges. A violent revolution will certainly mean the total loss of all that we have and cherish...
...murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...