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...south from the Congo frontier, now lies scorched as the Portuguese advance, burning the underbrush to smoke out hidden rebels. The rebels, badly armed, have no answer. Villages lie deserted; livestock, farms and gardens are abandoned as terrified natives flood into the lower Congo. Many know little about the rebellion...
...Rebellion Invincible. Rising from nowhere to take command by the greatest popular vote in history, Jânio Quadros has burst on the world like Brazil itself-temperamental, bristling with independence, bursting with ambition, haunted by poverty, fighting to learn, greedy for greatness. Quadros cries that Brazil is a great power, if not today, then tomorrow. He shouts that he is leading a revolution, a revolt against graft and governmental inefficiency, against social and economic backwardness, against nagging Latin American feelings of inferiority before the world. "This rebellion is invincible," says Quadros. "It is a state of mind, a collective...
...contrast, what I call academic abandon is a sign of discretion, of the fruitful use of rebellion. The term is ambiguous, and is meant to suggest both a gay freedom within academic work and, at times, a partial abandonment of such work for other styles of learning. As a career, academic abandon calls for persistent and ruthless self-criticism and for judgment about what is worthwhile doing. It is a style difficult to maintain, but easy to fall into...
...liaisons with historical and literary figures, with movements past and present, with the seashore, with "great ideas," with cities (like Durrell), with mathematics and music.... At times, this process is seemingly unproductive, and prominent among the metaphors of academic abandon is "gestation"--an unseen but strongly felt growth. Like rebellion against the grade system, such metaphors can serve either as excuses for not working or, in the ideal case of academic abandon, as a defense of unorthodox achievements. Unorthodox, not primarily in protest against the system, but in search for more congenial methods of learning, methods which are self-sustaining...
Since the rebellion began in the north four months ago, Roberto estimates perhaps 25,000 Angolans have been killed, some 1,000 Portuguese. Neutral observers estimate more conservatively that 4.000 rebels have been killed, some 1.200 loyalists, including 500 whites. 700 loyal blacks. Says Roberto: "We can keep on fighting longer than the Portuguese because there are more than...