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Jagan ordered the walkout last February to force recognition of his union by sugar growers, and create enough disturbance to make Britain postpone this autumn's election, which he would most probably lose. He failed on both counts. All he accomplished was to weaken the country's economy and touch off a vicious racial war between his 295,000 East Indian supporters and the colony's 190,000 determinedly anti-Jagan Negroes...
After the Indiana populace heard Jamie sing that for the 22,356th time in the autumn of 1962, Birch Bayh went to Washington...
...your father met me, he danced until his feet bled. They were bandaged for 15 days." Ever alert to such cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes many another movie musical look as pale as 60-watt moonshine...
...published The Tailor and Ansty in 1942, they were already something of a legend. Cross tells the stories and the occasional songs as he heard them. They are about talking cats; about the adventures of the "cabogues," itinerant laborers who used to help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings and wakes and corpses that sat up in their shrouds. Yet the special charm of this book is that it manages to describe Irish peasant life without condescension or that peculiar quaintness which often produces a distinct aroma of poteen and formaldehyde. The book's other claim...
...unbeaten Crimson crewmen stuck to their shovel-like smooth-water oars, leaped into the lead at the start of the 2,000-meter race, and held on to edge Cornell, chalk up their fourth straight victory, and establish themselves as a top candidate to represent the U.S. at next autumn's Olympics in Tokyo...