Word: corte
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...exacting standards of Julio Cortázar, a lazy reader is one who expects the author to do all the work. Such a reader assumes that a story will unwind consecutively, rationally, grammatically, before his indolent eyes. The sentences parse, the paragraphs link, the chapters march, good soldiers all, to a dramatically acceptable denouement. So much for the lazy reader. Author Cortázar wants nothing to do with...
CHARLES B. CORT West Hartford, Conn...
Hispaniola became Spain's first permanent colony in the New World, its key harbor and free port to all the Indies. From the Santo Domingo capital, Ponce de León sailed forth to Florida, Balboa discovered the Pacific, Pizarro invaded Peru, and Cortés conquered Mexico. It was the site of Latin America's first cathedral in 1514, its first university in 1538. Even then it was a land of violence, where men carried the law in their knives, and the captains from Castile thought nothing of shearing an ear from a disobedient Indian or letting...
...Cambridge Civic Association will discuss the City's poverty problem at its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Hotel Continental. William vanden Heuvel, New England area Director of the Community Action program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and John C. Cort, executive director of the Commonwealth Service Crops, will speak. The 3 p.m. meeting is open to the public free of charge...
...from the Loop. Most likely to succeed Homer is powerfully built (6 ft 3 in.) Edmund F. Martin, 60, who became president three years ago, then advanced to vice chairman last August as Stewart S. Cort, 52, replaced him. Martin, who now earns $255,663 a year, joined Bethlehem in 1922 as a "looper," or management trainee, worked up from repairman's helper to chief of steelmaking operations...