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Word: reaccionario (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...well received. South American students noisily circulate leaflets to the audience during one of his talks. Bech glimpses a copy: "It showed himself, huge-nosed, as a vulture with striped and starred wings, perched on a tangle of multicolored little bodies; beneath the caricature ran the capitalized words INTELECTUAL REACCIONARIO, IMPERIALISTA, ENEMIGO DE LOS PUEBLOS." In Africa, Bech the imperialist discovers that the rate of cultural exchange is being alarmingly devalued: "The students found decadent and uninteresting Proust, Joyce, Shakespeare, Sartre, Hemingway-Hemingway, who had so enjoyed coming to Tanganyika and killing its kudu and sitting by its campfires getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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