Word: conquistador
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...level of telepathic musical interaction in Taylor's groups starting around 1963 with the addition of drummer Steve Murray and saxophonist Jimmy Lyons is startling. These musicians are thinking so fast! On a recording such as the 1966 album Conquistador (airing on WHRB around 11:00 p.m.), the group produces music as a seamless whole. It is for this reason that Taylor chose to name his groups "The Cecil Taylor Unit," which he takes to mean, "a community of men feeding each other, relating to each other, and speaking to each other in musical, architectural sounds which have been passed...
...static. There is no such thing as the last word. And who could doubt that there is still much to revise in the story of the European conquest of North and South America that historians inherited? Its basic scheme was imperial: the epic advance of civilization against barbarism; the conquistador bringing the cross and the sword; the red man shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have only to read Parkman or Prescott to realize that. But after it left the histories...
When describing his radical plan to reform Brazil's out-of-control economy, President Fernando Collor de Mello used to state his goal by quoting Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes: "To win -- or to win." But in recent months the supremely confident Collor, 41, has notched precious few victories. The inflation rate, after being cut from 80% a month to less than 10%, is back to 17%. Interest rates are sky-high; unemployment is rising. Last week Collor got more bad news. In runoff elections for 15 governorships, progovernment candidates lost in the biggest and most influential states, including Sao Paulo...
Collor describes his goal in a phrase borrowed from the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes: "To win -- or to win." His long-distance vision is to boost Brazil from the Third to the First World, and he is convinced he can do it with a freer market, greater industrial efficiency and a leaner bureaucracy. Certainly, Brazil's potential is enormous. It has immense rivers and forests, rich agricultural lands, huge deposits of gold, gems, petroleum, iron ore and minerals. With a gross domestic product of $350 billion and annual exports of $34 billion, it is Latin America's most developed nation...
...volume is Fuku, an 87-page autobiographical odyssey that combines verse and narrative. The title is attributed to an African word used by Latin-American peasants to describe con men and exploiters. Yevtushenko has a little list, starting with Christopher Columbus, whom he evokes as a gold-hungry conquistador and an impatient actor on the set of a television mini-series (" 'When will this all end?!' grumbled Columbus, feeling his face to see if his gray beard had come unglued. 'Somebody, bring me a gin and tonic...