Word: barrios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...
...this neglected locale, Fiesta In Manhattan is the first novel of a 34-year-old New Jerseyite, who discovered Lower Harlem's barrio by way of Mexico, where he spent a year as the happy alternative to going into his father's silk business...
...story of two lately arrived peon newlyweds, enticed to Manhattan by a scatterbrained female gringo travel writer, Fiesta In Manhattan centres on their bungling efforts to adapt themselves to the cramped, precarious life of the barrio, their worse bungling when Juan tries to raise passage money home by peddling marijuana. Living conditions in the barrio, the natives' desperate shifts to make a living, their political tempers, the quarter's underworld are documented by Author Kaufman from firsthand study...
Speaker Martinez Barrio told the deputies that they were witnessing a historic meeting, that they were "writing a page of honor for the future Spanish fatherland." Historically minded Loyalists took heart by remembering that another Cortes had met in Cadiz in March 1812, in even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists...
...executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...