Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this mood they traveled the U.S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, touching at Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Washington. They were stuffed with facts about the U.S. educational system, fraternity houses, cement plants, free enterprise, soil-conservation projects and a calendar printing plant. They were briefed by State Department officials and rebriefed by professors, Rotarians and students of Hispanic affairs...
...even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with a currency of its own printed in Czechoslovakia. Western goods have vanished from shop shelves, and Communist cement clogs the wharves in payment for Guinea's bananas...
This blend of animal anguish and animal high spirits sets the tone for the whole story, as seen through the eyes of Paolino di Alba, a precocious 13-year-old. To Paolino, poverty is spelled ATLAS and HERCULES, the words on the cement bags his mother uses for diapers. Mama is patient, pious, and always pregnant. Papa is a bricklayer and a sport who feels a cut above the other paesanos. He flaunts a blonde, green-eyed "American" mistress named Delia with whom he wins dance contests at the local vaudeville palace...
...Best Man. In a hectic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...
...Best Man. In the setting of a frenetic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but, since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...