Smile, and smile, and be a villain

[Caius Marcius]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" 
> <catlady@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith"
> > <arrowsmithbt@> wrote:
> > 
> > > "Former dictator Antonio  Oliveira Salazar was chosen as the
> > > greatest Portuguese of all times by viewers of a TV show.
> > > Salazar, prime minister of a repressive  right-wing regime
> > >  also known as the New State from 1932 to 1968, received 
> > > 41 percent in Sunday evening's final of "Great Portuguese".
> > > 
> > > The late leader of the Portuguese Communist Party, Alvaro
> > > Cunhal, came second with 19 percent of the vote."
> > > 
> > Prince Henry the Navigator? Fernando Magellan? Aren't there any
> > Portuguese great authors? 

Luis de Camoes (1524-1580) is usually ranked as Portugal's greatest 
author Some rank him as the equal of Homer, Virgil and Dante. (I've 
not read him, even in translation, so I have no opinion).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es

Maybe Portugal's educational system has been imitating America's too 
closely.....

   - CMC