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Accompanying Simonov were Yokena , a literary scholar in modern American writing: Vera Panova, whose poetry and prose won Stalin Prizes; and Eduardas B. a Lithuanian writer of and children's books...
...country Pasternak is also very well known, but he is known as a translator of Shakespeare's plays. His writing as such is generally considered second-rate. Most students here haven't read or, often, even heard of most of our first rate modern writers, people like Vera Panova, Galina Nicholayeva or Ilya Ehrenburg...
Fetid Mysteries. To middle-class residents of Rio and São Paulo, the fetid favelas are cities apart, mysteriously alive but best not entered. In her book, Carolina tells them what life there is like. She recalls that for her daughter Vera Eunice's birthday, she dug a pair of shoes out of the garbage. "I washed them and gave them to her." Of the death of a two month-old boy in the favela, Carolina notes: "If he had lived he would have gone hungry." She says, "How horrible it is to see your children...
...surrounded the truck. A man yelled, "You think you are high-class now, you black whore! You write about us and make lots of money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard, and the driver roared through the mob. The favela-dwellers gave chase, brandishing clubs and rotten vegetables until the truck neared a police station. Then they fell away, and headed home...
...matter "of fact, they cut the hair off four other girls (Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Carla Gravina) in the same town, because the sergeant evidently got around. And for the rest of this 100-minute movie, which was made in Italy and Austria by Director Martin (The Sound and the Fury) Ritt, the customers watch a quintet of crew-cut cuties who look about as exciting as a boy scout troop on an overnight hike...