Word: silva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship. The Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus...
...film is untypical of Chandler in that it has a formula happy ending, but even this does not take the edge off of several very swell performances, particularly by the minor players. To cite chapter and verse, Howard Da Silva as the night club operator, and Will Wright as the house detective, do exceptionally sensitive jobs in roles that could easily have been stereotypes...
...Women. In Rio de Janeiro, ten girls whom Severino Felix da Silva invited to his party fell to fighting over him, left him battered senseless...
Best aspects: the tortuous, anarchic understanding of a bad world's infinite mezzotints of menace and blackmail; the constant twitching of city lights; the icily skillful use of the personalities of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake; the finely stylized, underplayed scenes involving Howard da Silva as a cabaret owner. Will Wright as a house dick, Walter Sande as a gunman...
...last week the doughty Guatemalans had come forward with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...