Word: candelario
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Benitez should have left the book as a jigsaw puzzle of touching, observant portraits of characters with charming names: Candelario Marroquin, the salad-maker who loses his job when he makes a tragic, comically botched Caesar salad, Fulgencio Llanos the photographer, Rafael Beltran the teacher, Cesar Burgos the fisherman. The theme of funny little people with funny little lives and little dreams--Marta Rodriguez, a chambermaid in a hotel, dreams of leaving Mexico for El Paso and working in a house--was strong enough to sustain the story...
Cinco de Mayo symbolizes the emergence of the Mexicans as a people, said Candelario Saenz, a visting scholar in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. The Quincy House affiliate said that "the notion that Mexico belongs to the Mexicans... was forged" on Mexican independence day, Diez y Seis de Septiembre, and Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla...
...this done in twelve days, Muralist Erwin Neumann went to work with both hands on the backgrounds. Candelario Rivas worked furiously on the faces, while Chief Muralist Heinsbergen and an assistant named Vsevelot Ulianoss acted as roving centres. The paint was scarcely dry when the hotel received one protest, from Mrs. Jack Merriam, secretary of the Beta Sigma Chapter of the Delphian Society...