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When solicitous old friends asked Manuel Cortés Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Man Upstairs | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...blind item (since it is still giving low-priced previews), this work by John Guare (author of last year's "Muzeeka") looks promising. At the CORT, W. 48th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring in New York: The Plays to See | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...CORT B. CASADY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT 1968 | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

Like the best of Fuentes' earlier books, Where the Air Is Clear (1960) and The Death of Artemio Cruz (1964), this one shows the influence of just about everyone the ambitious Mexican ever admired. There are echoes of Dos Passes, D. H. Lawrence, Faulkner, Mailer, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges. This time Fuentes also works in some sarcasm about the Mexican ethos, particularly his country's lively relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Volkswagen of Fools | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...Cort B. Casady '68 is collecting the signatures of Registered Massachusetts Democrats pledging to support only those party candidates who are "working in good faith to end the war." "Our eventual goal," Casady said Wednesday, "is to take the signatures to the Democratic platform committee, and say 'Look, here are 500,000 votes you're not going to get.' That would put some real pressure...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Harvard Senior Leads Democrats In Drive for Peace Plank in '68 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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