Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was both a tomorrow and a Thursday as, all week long, the nations angrily debated Cuba. The Security Council's first meeting developed into a sparring match in which Russia's vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations...
Except for a terrified and confusing depiction of Harlem Negroes as Congolese savage-Chiefs, Blood Wedding is Garcia Lorca's most fantastic poem, and his most intense effort to draw dramatic situations from people's most primitive conflicts. Everything is straight and crude: the wedding brings together the son of a powerful widow (who wants him to produce more sons to carry on a family vendetta that killed her husband) and the daughter of a grasping landowner (who wants to grasp more land...
Just at this triumphant point in their careers, however, the brothers made a bad political bet. They backed the unsuccessful efforts of President Carlos Garcia to win a second term for his discredited regime. When crusading Winner Diosdado Macapagal moved into Manila's presidential palace last January, he went after politically entrenched businessmen in general, and the Lopez brothers in particular. The Lopez group, Macapagal bluntly told the nation, "is using political power and influence to promote the interests of its business empire...
Stonehill's activities in the Philippines were a major embarrassment to honest President Diosdado Macapagal, who swept into office last year, vowing to clean out the corruption that had proliferated under former President Carlos Garcia. Last March Macapagal had deportation proceedings brought against Stonehill, charging him with "economic sabotage, tax evasion, political interference, misdeclaration of imports, influence peddling, and corruption of public officials." But rumors persisted that Stonehill was tied up with top members of Macapagal's own Cabinet...
...WEDDING, by Anqel M. de Lera (242 pp.; Dutton; $3.95). Spanish writers from Lope de Vega to Garcia Lorca have had a fascination for blending love and death in scenes of grotesque horror. In this tale by Spanish Novelist de Lera. the characters are cliches, and their talk is monotonous. But the novel comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest...