Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising that only now, so long after he left Cuba, has Guillermo Cabrera Infante published Vista Del Amanecer en el Tropico, (View of Dawn in the Tropics), his denunciation of the Cuban Revolution. Surprisingly, because it took so long for such a beautiful damnation to arrive from the Cuban opposition and because despite the passage of time, this book is as bitter as though its writer had left the island yesterday. Cabrera Infante has been an opponent of the Cuban government since he left the island in the early sixties. Like many exiles, he supported Castro at the beginning...
...Vista del Amanecer, Cabrera's newest statement, published in 1974, is a grimly serious book, soaked with desperate humor. It is a collection of short pieces, difficult to define, few of them more than a page long, meditations on images in Cuban history. At worst they resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies. Each one presents a static image or a brief moment. To explain the colonial period, for example, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave...
...their home-and also turned a handsome profit. Buoyed by that success, the insatiably ambitious Fraser went public in 1973, selling 400,000 shares in his Sea Pines Co. at $ 18 a share, while embarking on a series of other projects. The most important by far was Palmas Del Mar, a 2,800-acre playground in Puerto Rico, but he also started similar developments in Florida and Virginia and planned a 6,000-acre "private national park" in the wilderness of western North Carolina...
...writers at work on four separate official histories of his young company), Fraser has turned uncharacteristically frugal of late. He has fired the gaggle of Harvard M.B.A.s who flocked to Hilton Head in the early 1970s. In order to reduce Sea Pines' towering debt, he has sold Palmas Del Mar-taking a $13 million loss -and deeded back to the lender the North Carolina tract where he planned to build the Nantahala/Heritage Park. He has also shelved plans for several smaller resorts where "almost any member of the middle class" could enjoy a few days of outdoor recreation...
...edit the short-lived Careers Today, and soon took over the ailing Psychology Today. Harris stayed on as editor when the magazine was sold to Boise Cascade in 1969, when it was later sold to Ziff-Davis, and even when it was moved last year from sunny Del Mar, Calif., where its beachside editorial conferences were renowned, to Manhattan...