Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination in Berlioz' vein can be confused with eloquence, Shostakovich is an eloquent composer-eloquent perhaps in the manner of the political orator, of the haranguer of the masses, which, indeed, for him seems to be a desirable aim."-Adolfo Salazar, Music in Our Time...
...France, where smuggling was somewhat less effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...demand for TIME rose more copies were smuggled in. Their black market price reached the sum of 300 escudos ($12) a copy, and Portuguese paid as much as $2 to rent a copy for 24 hours. Portugal's clandestine anti-Fascist Committee typed translations of the Salazar piece for distribution...
...impact upon the Portuguese might have been less if they had been accustomed to the benefits of a free press. As it was, opinions about the Salazar cover ranged from extremes of approval to extremes of disapproval. Government officials and party supporters were "outraged" at its description of "another European dictatorship [that] had failed"; oppositionists felt that it should have been stronger. Middleof-the-roaders commented that the story had "really hit pretty much the nose...
Last week, we were notified that shipments of TIME into Portugal could be resumed. But the Salazar Government made no overtures for returning our correspondent to Lisbon...