Word: sarmiento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know of at least one Argentine who did not think as Mr. Llambi-Campbell evidently does. His name was Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, onetime President of Argentina in the-1870s. He established schools based upon the United States model, educated his people in the political institutions of the United States, which he greatly admired and respected, by having such great American documents as the Federalist, and the constitutional writings of Joseph Story, translated into Spanish...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...
...Itching Parrot-"Poll" for short-is the nickname of one Pedro Sarmiento, a well-born Mexican ne'er-do-well who plays out the classic routines of all picaresque heroes, with a strong dash of erotic chile con carne seasoned with moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty...