Word: alarcon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Question of Honor. Some claims, to be sure, were exaggerated. The fishing captain whose sighting helped in the recovery of the bomb from the sea demanded $5,000,000; he got only medals from two grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans...
Sophomore Rich Hallet yesterday scored the first goal in the third quarter. In the final period senior Pedro Alarcon and sophomore Ben Phinney clinched the game for the Crimson...
...Gleason led the scoring with two goals. Sophomores Bob Galliers, Mike Schwayder, and Ben Phinney, junior Frank Jurado, and seniors John Camp and Pedro Alarcon accounted for the rest of Harvard's points with one goal apiece...
After a scoreless second period, John Metzger took a cross-field pass from Yonni Champman and headed the ball down to Nick Hallett, who put it into the net. A few minutes later, Metzger recorded another assist when he passed to Pedro Alarcon in front of the Brown goal. Alarcon scored Harvard's final point from fifteen yards...
This is more than melodrama, Translator Graves easily persuades the reader. Alarcon, the firebrand grown conservative, still is a mocker. His gentle irony is aimed partly at the lofty aspirations of youth, and also, less obviously, at the easy com promises of age. The author's characters, particularly those that are, in part, self-caricatures, are drawn with accuracy and wit. Alarcón's description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind...