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...downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little Red One), a sidewalk cafe, Communist literati flocked again to sip beer. They sneered complacently at "Yankee imperialists" who drank Scotch...
...intimately," he has decided, "than to spend your life in ceaseless discussions. To read the blossoms and other arrangements of nature, to touch the wonderful textures of things in the woods, with surfaces as exciting as a woman's skin-you can't find that in a cafe...
Caen's Chronicle column got off to a slow start, for conservative San Franciscans whose names were newsworthy didn't like to make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...
There are moments when panels of the Paris of 1921 are briefly and brilliantly lighted up-fashionable house parties where the company is picked to create tensions, the conversation is acrid and infidelities are always in the making; arty gatherings and cafe parties which recall the days when Aragon was the darling of the Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical...
...gleaming smile of Miguel Aléman. He got to work, and in two years Aléman zoomed from private citizen to Justice of the Superior Court of the Federal District to Senator from Vera Cruz to Governor of the state. (His predecessor had been killed in a cafe murder...