Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though he if often accused of them. Fidel Castro is not a Communist; he has accepted a few communist ideas, and has fallen for parts of the local communist line, but by no stretch of the definition is he a Communist. Fidel Castro is not merely an incompetent guerilla leader; though his executive abilities are questionable he works harder than almost any other chief of state in the world. Fidel Castro is not a god; Cuba's popular magazine, Bohemia, printed a sketch of him, brows furrowed, eyes cast upward, with a light halo about his curly locks...
...Four pilots, 2 demolition experts, 2 radiomen, 2 medics, 3 arms experts or suppliers, a dozen marines, 1 Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 3 Cuban (Castro) rebels, 1 Yugoslav guerilla, 4 Chinese, 1 Costa Rican, 2 Negroes, numerous Korean veterans...
Director Sam Wood has done a dramatically effective job of converting Ernest Hemingway's tight drama of guerilla warfare into a movie, but he has run into difficulty in neglecting the major ideas of the book. The book would make no sense without the love plot; it holds the story together and provides real element of tragedy. Yet the movie glosses the subtleties of the love sequence, leaving the viewer with the impression that he has seen some good war scenes, and some good love scenes, with very little to relate them to each other...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...
Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow...