Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization. The man whom they honor, Sandino, he said he was a Communist. (Augusto Cesar Sandino, assassinated in 1934, was a guerrilla leader and nationalist who in fact was not a Communist.) They ousted their other allies in the revolution, and then they established a totalitarian Communist regime, the same process that Castro employed in taking over Cuba...
Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...
Some of the 1986 arches allude explicitly to that extravagant era when follies proliferated; some are simply giddy. Their very existence seems fair evidence that a new gilded age is under way. For even though the seven architects (Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Stanley Tigerman, Michael Graves, Helmut Jahn and Texans Boone Powell and Eugene Aubry) worked for free, the arches cost $35,000 to $70,000 apiece; the budgets had been $25,000. Fortunately for Galvestonians, the project has deep-pocket private patrons...
...Cesar Pelli: Piper Auditorium, Harvard School of Design...
Herzog did say that he would start right-swinging Cesar Cedeno in right field against Valenzuela...