Word: gabriela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...GABRIELA, CLOVE AND CINNAMON (425 pp.)-Jorge Amado-Knopf...
...does not take the reader long to realize that he is in the hands of a Brazilian Boccaccio (whose book is marred now and then by his translators' foolish fondness for gringo slang). It is no surprise, therefore, when Gabriela appears-the laughing, barefoot, round-rumped omnamorata who turns up in the bawdy literature of every language. Who is Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes...