Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent for South American newspapers (notably Buenos Aires' La Nation), wrote essays on the Brooklyn Bridge and woman's suffrage, did art criticism in English for the New York Sun, wrote books for children, and did translations for Appleton & Co. Tirelessly, he wrote letters to unite Cuban rebels, organized revolutionary clubs, lectured (sometimes in Tammany Hall) to other Cuban exiles...
...White Horse. Martí became the established political leader of all Cuban exiles. In the cigar factories of Tampa and Key West, he persuaded Cuban workers to join his Revolutionary Party and give a day's wages every week to the cause. Tactfully, he brought the proud generals of the Ten Years War under his command; incongruously, he haggled with munitions salesmen in New York hotel lobbies. More than anyone else, he touched off the revolt...
...masterfully written story about a Cuban fisherman, which may be just what Ernest Hemingway thinks it is: the best work he has ever done (TIME. Sept...
...masterfully written story about a Cuban fisherman (TIME, Sept...
Italian-born Alba de Cespedes, whose Cuban grandfather was the first President and liberator of Cuba, has a sharp eye for the kind of gritty marital incidents that set a man & wife's teeth on edge. In piling most of the evidence and all of the sympathv on her heroine's side, she writes like a shrewd attorney for the plaintiff, but reads, finally, like a somewhat shallow judge of human relations...