Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mellow has fine vignettes from the '20s and '30s. Francis Picabia, the rich, eccentric Cuban painter-owner of 100 autos in his lifetime-darts in and out of the narrative. "If you want clean ideas, you must change them as often as your shirts," he advised Gertrude. Her triumphant American tour in 1934 is a familiar story, but Mellow has new anecdotes, such as renting a You-Drive-Yourself car in Chicago because Gertrude was enchanted by the firm's name...
...former adviser to Cuban President Fidel Castro and Chilean leader Salvador Allende yesterday linked black activism in the United States with revolutions in underdeveloped countries as the prime source for social change in the world today...
Some of the roots of Cuban racism can be found in the influence of American business contact in the late 19th century, Boorstein said. He said that Americans visiting Cuba expected special treatment as whites, and spread racist attitudes...
...Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player of all time. His government gave him a permanent position as a roving diplomat, transferring him to a post in whatever city his next tournament was scheduled...
Reston did not hide his distaste for Castro's Cuba. He said that the "self-interest of the [U.S.] undoubtedly requires the overthrow of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, which is providing a political and, increasingly, a military base of communism in the Carribean" (column, April 12, 1961). The column was headlined "The Moral Question...