Word: amalia
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...Just before his Dec. 1 inauguration, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had a visit in his office from a resolute feminist named Amalia de Castillo Ledon. The conversation was brief and businesslike...
...President Ruiz Cortines made good on his promise. As his first notable legislative gesture after naming the new cabinet, he sent to Congress a constitutional amendment designed to give Mexican women full citizenship rights, including the vote. Smiling down from the congressional gallery, as the proposal was read, was Amalia Ledon...
...Amalia stands quietly, framed by the figures of two men who play deep-toned Portuguese guitars. Sometimes smiling, sometimes with her eyes closed reflectively, she sings about love, jealousy, the sadness of parting-and fate in general. And without understanding more than a word or two, the crowd sits entranced...
Fado singing seems to have started as the bitter balladry of 18th century Portuguese convicts on their way to forced labor and exile in Portugal's African colonies. Amalia's fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing...
...will stay in Manhattan as long as people want to hear her, then go to Mexico City. She would love to go to Hollywood-"what performer wouldn't?" But Amalia, who freely admits she can wrap any Portuguese audience around her little finger, is frightened. "I don't think I'm good enough," she says...