Word: classe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Machetes." Castro more and more needs a strong political army because his half-baked reform ideas, skillfully shaped by Communists, are dividing Cuba along class-struggle lines. Last week bands of oppositionists were reported gathering in the hills of eastern Oriente and western Pinar del Rio provinces, and there were large troop movements up and down the island...
...marathon TV interviews (five hours, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.), Castro resumed his attacks on the U.S., saying, "International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution, which is an example for the rest of Latin America." He waved the specter of class war, warning that he has summoned half a million peasants "with their machetes" to Havana on July 26. The picture that came off the screen was that of a fanatic heading for a leftist dictatorship...
...require the players to convey the music of poetic lines--an area in which the company as a whole is weak. This is not to say that the writing in the play lacks interest; far from it. The text is a rich mine of various kinds of lower-class Elizabethan speech, including laughable treatments of French and Welsh dialects. It is filled with captivating puns, doubles ententes, and novel images; and it constitutes a veritable dictionary of original invectives, insults, and expletives...
...Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw him into prison, tortured him for five months until he signed a confession of plotting against Russia. Released in the thaw of 1956, Kovacs joined Imre Nagy...
...tenant's mouth water more longingly than any other words. "Owner" is the O.K. word today for landlord ("The New Deal fostered a bitter reaction to 'Landlord' "). An accomplished owner delegates most of his work to his "manager" ("Avoid the word 'janitor' ... a higher-class manager can be hired by referring to the dirty work as 'maintenance' or 'custodial...