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...arguing becomes complicated upon the arrival of government official Freddy Fox, who holds the authorization for the Pablo Neruda Foundation, which is to be created upon Matilde's death. He tells the communists that if they deny the dead woman's wishes and allow all leftist groups to converge on the cemetery under no specific leadership and without the church, he will authorize the Foundation. Lisboa's group accepts, but Fox meanwhile calls hundreds of police troops to surround the cemetery and to take notes on the leftists in attendance. The communists achieve their foundation, but they compromise their secrecy...
...climax of the novel occurs at the actual funeral of Matilde Neruda. Thousands of communists, Leftists and friends converge on the local cemetery to protest and to show respect for the dead, including the perennial drunkard Juan Lopez, or Lopito, as he is known to his friends including Vera and Torre. Angered by a policeman's laughter at his incredibly ugly and clumsy daughter, Lopito picks a fight with the machine gun man and is put in jail without bail...
...where are the memorials to the war dead? Where is the museum about World War II?" I continued to press, perplexed that the Chinese seemed to have no interest in preserving the memory of what is known, even in America, as one of the bloodiest and most horrifying episodes of World...
...archaeologists who seek to study them, and "pot hunters," who pillage the sites for quick profit. Hillerman offers plenty of surprise and danger. But what lingers is the scenes of digging by moonlight and the diggers' reveries about the mysterious Anasazi, who went to such trouble to honor their dead a millennium ago. Careful with the facts, A Thief of Time nonetheless transmutes knowledge into romance...
...patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff, unable to respond adequately, belatedly asked the Cook County Hospital trauma unit to take the patient. On his arrival at the facility, some five hours after first receiving medical aid, the youth was dead...