Word: cabrera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Cabrera...
Columbia's Joe Cabrera rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown, but Penn thwarted four Columbia possessions with interceptions. However, Penn could not sustain any offense either...
After Terry Trusty recovered a John Cabrera fumble at the Columbia 34, quick blasts from backs Paul Connors and Jon Hollingsworth moved the team to the 25. St. John, who used the roll-out well all afternoon, then took a keeper for five yards on a third-and-one situation to give Harvard a first down at the Columbia...
Freedman here has not settled on a specific city, but he has chosen to make his Caesar a Latin American caudillo, who enjoys wearing his military uniform with its gold braid and rows of campaign service ribbons. Our century is familiar with such personages: Peron in Argentina, Estrada Cabrera and Ubico in Guatemala, Gomez and Perez Jimenez in Venezuela, Vargas in Brazil, Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador, Ibanez in Chile, Stroessner in Paraguay...
There is a moral argument to be made against the Cuban revolution, and at the last moment Cabrera invokes Human Rights assuming the voice of a mother wailing for her son who was left to die without medical attention in prison. But Cabrera is no social activist; he is a self-exiled superfluous man, a film critic in a country that could no longer afford to import movies, who vents his pessimism and alienation in a very powerful book. Its clipped and limited range brings it up short of what it could have been. An intellectual document is still needed...