Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apologize for my delay in responding to Mike Prokosch's review of the Cuban film, Memories of Underdevelopment, but write this in the hope that it is not too late to correct some important misrepresentations contained in Prokosch's article...
While I suppose I ought to feel flattered at having been dubbed a "beloved leftish writer" (whatever that is), I must first of all insist that the Center for Cuban Studies, for whose benefit Memories was shown at the Harvard Square Theatre, is not, as your reviewer stated, a fellowship fund for leftist writers. Had he taken the trouble to read the front page of the same brochure from whose back page he took the names mentioned in his article, Prokosch would have understood that the Center for Cuban Studies is a tax-exempt, non-profit cultural institution whose purpose...
...magazine did about Desnoes' novel when it was published here in 1967: Time praised it as "counter-revolutionary" and middle-class, the same qualities that Prokosch attacks. What both reviewers, writing from politically antipodal positions, failed equally to understand is that Memories is a rich dialectical confrontation with the Cuban revolution. By viewing its form and content literally, by taking it as a straightforward piece of interior fiction. they missed its true meaning, which is: this is why there had to be a revolution in Cuba (and why there must be other revolutions everywhere...
...epee, N.Y.U. has the Cuban national champion, who as a transfer student became eligible this year, and All-American Wayne Krause, who took second at the NCAA's last year...
...long Chile's popularity will last is uncertain. Santiago would doubtless rate more stars than Havana in any Bakuninist Baedeker. The four Quebec terrorists who were flown to the Cuban capital last month in exchange for the release of British Trade Commissioner James Cross were grousing about their future in Castro's hardscrabble country even before they arrived. Still, Chile is not even trying to match the amenities available in Algeria, where President Houari Boumedienne provides visiting revolutionaries with housing, $500 a month in expenses, air-travel vouchers and even artillery practice. After the initial abrazos, Chilean officials...