Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companions emerged from the forest near a small town 100 miles west of Bogotá, an army patrol, lying in ambush, shot him dead. The worldly possessions on his body: a rifle, a pistol, two hand grenades and a picture of Cuba's Communist Che Guevara...
Tough Trick. Adriana may be a stranger to U.S. and English audiences, but the opera is a repertory staple in Italy. Composer Cilèa (pronounced che-lay-ah) wrote it when he was 35, and it established his reputation. He coasted on it from its premiere in 1902 until his death in 1950. It is a respectable enough opera, reminiscent of Puccini in its throbbing arias and duets and in its yearning strings. It even has a predictably pathetic ending, in which the heroine is punished for the crime of having fallen in love...
Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
Guevara's more bellicose remarks were blue-penciled out by the Worker's London editors-Moscow has decreed a softer line these days. Che, among other things, told the Worker correspondent: "We know that some people in Europe are saying that a great victory has been won. We ask whether in exchange for some slight gain we have only prolonged the agony. So far, all that has happened is that a confrontation has been avoided." Taking the Chinese "war is inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination...
...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...