Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to that of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-champion of the individual, implacable foe of organized Bigness. The book presents-as an imaginary series of movie-illustrated lectures followed by questions from the audiences-a series of reports on countries Dos Passos has visited recently (Britain, Argentina, Chile) and on recent happenings in the U.S. The lecturer-audience exchanges, which seem at first to be a naive gimmick, are actually shrewd and persuasive glimpses into the thinking of average U.S. citizens. The reporting, as in all Dos Passes' writing, is graphic, honest and peppered with insights...
...Passos went to South America to see if there was any help for democracy in the younger societies of Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He found signs of pioneer strength in Brazil, but in Argentina as in Britain he found centralization leading toward tyranny. In Chile, he saw a democracy in danger of drowning with a heavy Communist minority tied to its neck...
...sing his first Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until he fulfilled a delayed engagement. Last week, finally freed by persuasion and compromise, Vinay flew to San Francisco, took his big step, was cheered by audience and critics...
Died. Arturo Alessandri Palma, 81, president of the Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...
...political picture today, moreover, compares favorably with the picture only 20 years ago, when Machado ruled in Cuba, Gómez in Venezuela, Ibáñez in Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...