Word: haciendas
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...estate falls partly to Viridiana, partly to Jorge, the uncle's practical, unprincipled, illegitimate son. Jorge works hard to make his half of the hacienda a paying proposition. Viridiana turns her half into a refuge for the rag, tag and bobtail of the province-beggars, footpads, lepers, trulls. While Jorge and his hired men work, Viridiana and her rabble pray...
...fine arts. He keeps a wandering and unpredictable eye on these enterprises from a variety of homes: a 33-acre farm in New Jersey, a 117-acre estate in Hollywood, a town house near London's Hyde Park, a villa at Cap d'Antibes, a hacienda in Palm Beach, a 13-room duplex in Manhattan hung with Rubens, Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt...
...home in California, Tomor now spends his weekdays teaching carpentry to 50 boys at the Institute De Educación in Malloco. Chile. On weekends, he boards a wheezing bus and rides 30 miles to San Manuel, where 70 peasant families work a landowner's 12,000-acre hacienda, in their off-hours tend their own tiny holdings. Tomor is trying to help the campesinos raise poultry. He has shown them how to build a chicken house of wire, wood and burlap and a brooder of wood slats, wire and an old barrel. Formerly, only one of every...
...Cuba is no better than what we have are," repiled one Brazilian peasant then Plank questioned him on the tour. The only difference is that there the hacienda-owner is the stato...
Trained in conservatism and orthodoxy at the pre-Laski (1915-18) London School of Economics. Beltran came home to put the modern miracles of science to work on the family hacienda and to criticize governments from the pages of his daily La Prensa. His criticism of ex-Dictator Manuel Odria landed him in jail; his criticism of Odria's successor, President Manuel Prado, gave Prado an idea-he asked Beltran to help run the country...