Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What with cars and guns, women and wars, the Hemingway hero is always counting his good times on his fingers and telling why they went bad. The great good time in 20th century fiction, and the origin of the fête idea, was the three-day fiesta of the running of the bulls at Pamplona in The Sun Also Rises. Fetes end, Due tells himself, when there is a fall from what sportsmen call "form," mystics call "grace" and gamblers call "luck." What actually happens is that intensity of sensation lacks duration. The Hemingway hero is a collector...
Directly above a new twelve-lane expressway, Kratter intends to build a $12 million, 27-story middle-income apartment project renting at $28 per room, hopes to give it a multishaded shell of pastel porcelain for "a fiesta look." The buildings will stand on 45-ft. stilts placed between the lanes of the expressway, will have their heating and other utility equipment on the top floor. Says Kratter: "We'll probably have the only penthouses in New York occupied by heaters and boilers...
...Last October Johnson returned the Mexican President's hospitality with a huge fiesta at the ranch, featuring a Mexican band, platters of $2.50-per-lb. beef barbecue, hundreds of Mexican tricolors, 800 goggle-eyed guests, and a sign, prominently displayed on a tree: LYNDON JOHNSON SERÁ PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...